Retrieve Email Attachments

[Fazer]

Hello,

I need to access a POP or mayb IMAP based email account and extract
attachments (probably images) from the email messages. How can this
be done with the current two module libraries?

Thanks for any insight.

Faizan.

[Lutz Horn]

> I need to access a POP or mayb IMAP based email account and extract

attachments (probably images) from the email messages. How can this
be done with the current two module libraries?

Use poplib or imaplib to get a message as a string.

import poplib
connection = poplib.POP3("servername")
connection.user("username")
connection.pass_("password")
Then use the email module (new in 2.2) to parse this string into an
instance of email.Messsage using
import email
msg = email.message_from_string(msg_as_string)

Use the methods of the resulting email.Message instance to get the
contents of the email.

Lutz

[Lutz Horn]

Lutz Horn wrote:

Use poplib or imaplib to get a message as a string.

>>> import poplib
>>> connection = poplib.POP3("servername")
>>> connection.user("username")
>>> connection.pass_("password")
forgot:
msg_as_string = connection.get(number_of_message_on_server)

Then use the email module (new in 2.2) to parse this string into an
instance of email.Messsage using
>>> import email
>>> msg = email.message_from_string(msg_as_string)

Use the methods of the resulting email.Message instance to get the
contents of the email.

[deelan]

Fazer wrote:

Hello,

I need to access a POP or mayb IMAP based email account and extract
attachments (probably images) from the email messages. How can this
be done with the current two module libraries?

i've posted an example script non too long ago:
<http://tinyurl.com/yuhmn>

cheers,
deelan

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[Fazer]

Thanks a lot for your guide!

Lutz Horn <lh*@gmx.de> wrote in message news:<2g************@uni-berlin.de>...

Lutz Horn wrote:

Use poplib or imaplib to get a message as a string.

>>> import poplib
>>> connection = poplib.POP3("servername")
>>> connection.user("username")
>>> connection.pass_("password")
forgot:
>>> msg_as_string = connection.get(number_of_message_on_server)

Then use the email module (new in 2.2) to parse this string into an
instance of email.Messsage using

>>> import email
>>> msg = email.message_from_string(msg_as_string)

Use the methods of the resulting email.Message instance to get the
contents of the email.

[Fazer]

Wow! Exactly what I needed. Thanks a million!

deelan <gg*@zzz.it> wrote in message news:<62***********@news1.interplanet.it>...

Fazer wrote:

Hello,

I need to access a POP or mayb IMAP based email account and extract
attachments (probably images) from the email messages. How can this
be done with the current two module libraries?

i've posted an example script non too long ago:
<http://tinyurl.com/yuhmn>

cheers,
deelan