Example of a email processing to a file

[chuck amadi]

Hi sorry to try and get someone to do my job but im at logger heads at
the moment .

I have been assigned a duty to abstract from a mail acoount
(/var/spool/mail/Usersurvey)

The email messages are encapsulated in xml I want to parse the data into
a database.

I have been programming with UnixMailbox Module and been able to view
the contents but how do I get all the messages into one file.I know the
database part just this extraction bit.

I fsomeone has a snippet or example would be great as I got a tight
deadline .

Cheers all

[Mario Teijeiro]

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chuck amadi wrote:

I have been programming with UnixMailbox Module and been able to view
the contents but how do I get all the messages into one file.I know the
database part just this extraction bit.

Is this what you want ?

messages is a results's of rfc822.Message(....) list.

def save2mbox(dir_backup,mbox,messages,compressed,expi red):
""" Guarda la lista de mensajes
en el directorio dir_backup y
con nombre mbox
"""
# Verificamos que existe dir_backup
import os
if not os.path.exists(dir_backup):
os.makedirs(dir_backup)

YYYY,MM,DD,hh,mm,ss,ms,mms,e =gmtime(expired)
mymbox="%s-%d%.2d%.2d" % (mbox,YYYY,MM,DD)
if compressed:
import gzip
fw=gzip.GzipFile(dir_backup+'/'+mymbox+'.gz','ab',5)
else:
fw=open(dir_backup+'/'+mbox,'ab')
for msg in messages:
try:
fecha=rfc822.formatdate(mktime(msg.getdate('date') ))
except:
fecha=rfc822.formatdate(mktime(gmtime(0)))
fw.write("From %s %s\r\n" % (msg.getaddr('from'
[-1],fecha))
fw.write(msg.fp.getvalue())
fw.write("\r\n")
fw.close()
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