[Tutor] Stdin email question

[Kirk Bailey]

more.
Reading in 'Learning Python', I see many wise words of clarity.
you can use sys.stdin.read(), sys.stdin,readline(), or sys.stdin.readlines()

message=sys.stdin.readlines()
should definately hand you the entire message, MINUS the envlope data, which
the smtp server ate for lunch.

Now riddle me this: whyfor do you want to grok the entire thing undigested?

If you simply want to capture the message for examination, why not just feed it to a file?

To do it takes a simple alias:
aliasname:/pathtofile/filename
the file should be existant, and be writable by your Mail Transmission Agent (MTA, 
frequently Sendmail). IF THE PATH HAS ANY S P A C E S IN IT, YOU MUST BRACKET IT IN 
"QUOTES".
aliasname:"/path to file/filename"
Like that.

Hmmm, are you trying to write a mail filtering script??? Or what?

(this is getting intresting...)

james dean wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to read an email message from stdin.
> 
> I can get the email headers:
> 
>      headers = rfc822.Message(sys.stdin)
> 
> I can get the message body:
> 
>       body = sys.stdin.read()
> 
> 
> but I can't for the life of me get the whole message headers and body in 
> one go.
> 
> How can I do this please.
> 
> James
> 
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              Kirk D Bailey

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