how to get size of email attachment

[Joh]

hello,

i'm looking for a way to get total size of an email (with its attached
files) using library such as poplib, or ?

can someone help me or give me an url from where to start ?

thx

[Peter Hansen]

Joh wrote:

i'm looking for a way to get total size of an email (with its attached
files) using library such as poplib, or ?

can someone help me or give me an url from where to start ?

Looking in the docs for poplib, I found this:
http://docs.python.org/lib/pop3-objects.html

It describes how using .list() should provide you with results in
the form (response, ['mesg_num octets', ...]). The word "octets"
here refers to the number of bytes, essentially, in each message.

-Peter

[Tim Williams (gmail)]

On 30 Aug 2004 12:05:18 -0700, Joh <jo******@yahoo.fr> wrote:

hello,

i'm looking for a way to get total size of an email (with its attached
files) using library such as poplib, or ?

can someone help me or give me an url from where to start ?

thinking aloud and off the top of my head , you could try the email
module (python docs)

import email

msg = email.message_from_file(xxx) (or email.message_from_string(xxx) )

then something like

for part in msg.walk():
length = len(str(part))
fname = part.get_filename()
or

if msg.is_multipart( ):
temp_payload = msg.get_payload()
for x in range(len(temp_payload)):
print temp_payload[x].get_content_type()
print temp_payload[x].get_filename()
print len(str(temp_payload[x]))

Remember any size you get will be the size of the attachment whilst
its encoded into a mime object, which won't be the same as the size
of the file on disk.

I'm not sure the above will work, but its in the right ball park, If
you don't have any luck post back and I'll look into it next time I'm
in the office and have python docs easily to hand.

[Anthony Baxter]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:08:42 +0100, Tim Williams (gmail)
<td*******@gmail.com> wrote:

On 30 Aug 2004 12:05:18 -0700, Joh <jo******@yahoo.fr> wrote:

hello,

i'm looking for a way to get total size of an email (with its attached
files) using library such as poplib, or ?

can someone help me or give me an url from where to start ?

thinking aloud and off the top of my head , you could try the email
module (python docs)

I put a recipe up on the Python cookbook for stripping out attachments
from an email message - you could adapt that to measure the sizes of
the attachments pretty easily.

http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Coo.../Recipe/302086