[lug] Splitting mail file

[Riggs, Rob]

Check out the Python library mimetools package docs. (www.python.org and
follow the documentation link.) The mimetools package can split the MIME
attachments and decode them for you.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Weinert [mailto:kenw at ihs.com]
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 11:52 AM
To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
Subject: Re: [lug] Splitting mail file


Thanks! What would I have to add to split any attachements into their
own file? :)

No need to reply if it's going to take a bunch of time - just getting
this much is a great help.

* Riggs, Rob (RRiggs at doubleclick.net) [010824 17:44]:
> Yeah -- Python! :-)
> 
> The following script accepts a mailbox filename on the command line and
> splits each message into files named "1", "2", "3", etc. within the
current
> directory.
> 
> 
> #!/usr/bin/python
> 
> import sys, os
> 
> from mailbox import UnixMailbox
> 
> mboxFile = open(sys.argv[1])
> mbox = UnixMailbox(mboxFile)
> 
> count = 1
> 
> while 1:
>         mesg = mbox.next()
>         if not mesg: break
>         fp = open('%d' % count, 'w')
>         for line in mesg.headers:
>                 fp.write(line)
>         fp.write('\n')
>         fp.write(mesg.fp.read())
>         fp.close()
>         count = count + 1
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Weinert [mailto:kenw at ihs.com]
> 
> Any know of any utilities off hand that will take a mail spool and split
> it so that each message gets put into its own file?
> 
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