Reading message size

[Edvard Majakari]

I'm trying to create an improved front-end for training messages for a
spam filter. I discovered an excellent Python module email - now it's so
easy to support variety of mailbox formats. However, I need to know exact
size of the message (in bytes) and skip the message if it is too large,
before passing the message to filter.

This is easy with MH or Maildir style directories - because each message
is on separate file, it is trivial to get the file size. However, with
mbox or any other format containing several messages in a file, I'm unable
to find out individual message size.

Of course, I could find this out by writing a message to a temp file and
afterwards checking the temp file size, but I think that's awkward and
inelegant. Is it somehow possible with email module?

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$_ = '456476617264204d616a616b6172692c20612043687269737 469616e20'; print
join('',map{chr hex}(split/(\w{2})/)),uc substr(crypt(60281449,'es'),2,4),"\n";