Apparently I am getting the email as a list, but I don't know of a way
to do it otherwise. I have read through the docs on
www.python.org
for the email module, but there is not much on reading mail, rather it
focuses more on creating it. Below is my *complete* code (I am fairly
sure I am importing more than I need to), is there a way to get a
message from the server in a form other than a list? I assume this
can be done with the email module but I must be too dim to find it.
Can you provide a link to information about the standard library email
module? Once again, thanks.
import poplib, os, mailconfig, email, mimetools
mailserver = mailconfig.popservername
mailuser = mailconfig.popusername
mailpasswd = mailconfig.poppassword
dir = os.curdir
def connect(mailserver, mailuser, mailpasswd):
print '\nConnecting...'
server = poplib.POP3(mailserver)
server.user(mailuser)
server.pass_(mailpasswd)
return server
if __name__ == "__main__":
server = connect(mailserver, mailuser, mailpasswd)
try:
(msgCount, msgBytes) = server.stat()
print '\nThere are', msgCount, 'mail messages, total',
msgBytes, 'bytes'
print 'Retrieving message', msgCount, '\n'
(hdr, msg, octets) = server.retr(msgCount)
email_file = open('email.txt', 'w')
email_file.write(message)
email_file.close()
finally:
server.quit()
print 'Closed connection.'
fp = open('email.txt')
filemsg = email.message_from_file(fp)
fp.close()
for part in filemsg.walk:
print part.get_content_type()
