mbox mail handling

[John Doe]

I'm looking for some help to:
access a /var/spool/mail/userbox, which should have 5 or more messages.

parse each message into mhlib.Message format. So I can pull docs and
pictures out of each mail message.

Anybody got a suggestion, two or three?

 

[Eric S. Johansson]

I'm looking for some help to:
access a /var/spool/mail/userbox, which should have 5 or more messages.

parse each message into mhlib.Message format. So I can pull docs and
pictures out of each mail message.

Anybody got a suggestion, two or three?

here are two:
for read only handling of your mailboxes
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-mailbox.html

for handling individual e-mail messages:
http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html