nog.infio.mirror/src/Mail/parsing_Mail_from_Mime.py

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""source for this script https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.examples.html"""
"""Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files."""
import os
import email
import mimetypes
from email.policy import default
from argparse import ArgumentParser
def main():
# parser = ArgumentParser(description="""\
# Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files.
# """)
# parser.add_argument('-d', 'directory', required=True,
# help="""Unpack the MIME message into the named
# directory, which will be created if it doesn't already
# exist.""")
# parser.add_argument('msgfile')
# args = parser.parse_args()
with open("mysourcedirectory/mymailfilename", 'rb') as fp:
#Insert here your sourcedirectory and the file name of the file to parse
msg = email.message_from_binary_file(fp, policy=default)
try:
os.mkdir("mybeautifulmaildirectory")
#insert here name of output path
except FileExistsError:
pass
# with open(args.msgfile, 'rb') as fp:
# msg = email.message_from_binary_file(fp, policy=default)
# try:
# os.mkdir(args.directory)
# except FileExistsError:
# pass
counter = 1
for part in msg.walk():
# multipart/* are just containers
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
continue
# Applications should really sanitize the given filename so that an
# email message can't be used to overwrite important files
filename = part.get_filename()
if not filename:
ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_content_type())
if not ext:
# Use a generic bag-of-bits extension
ext = '.bin'
filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, ext)
counter += 1
with open(os.path.join("/mybeautifulcleanmaildirectory", filename), 'wb') as fp:
#insert output path above
fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()