parse output screen ok but cant get desired output new file!

[chuck amadi]

By the way list is there a better way than using the readlines() to

 

[Larry Bates]

I wrote something a couple of weeks ago that might help.
It works with POP3 mailboxes and it handles messages with
body text and/or attachments, but you could easily change
it.

Hope it helps.
Larry Bates
Syscon, Inc.

import poplib
import email
import email.Parser
import os
import sys

class email_attachment:
def __init__(self, messagenum, attachmentnum, filename, contents):
'''
arguments:

messagenum - message number of this message in the Inbox
attachmentnum - attachment number for this attachment
filename - filename for this attachment
contents - attachment's contents
'''
self.messagenum=messagenum
self.attachmentnum=attachmentnum
self.filename=filename
self.contents=contents
return

def save(self, savepath, savefilename=None):
'''
Method to save the contents of an attachment to a file
arguments:

savepath - path where file is to be saved
safefilename - optional name (if None will use filename of
attachment
'''

savefilename=savefilename or self.filename
f=open(os.path.join(savepath, savefilename),"wb")
f.write(self.contents)
f.close()
return

class email_msg:
def __init__(self, messagenum, contents):
self.messagenum=messagenum
self.contents=contents
self.attachments_index=0 # Index of attachments for next method
self.ATTACHMENTS=[] # List of attachment objects

self.msglines='\n'.join(contents[1])
#
# See if I can parse the message lines with email.Parser
#
self.msg=email.Parser.Parser().parsestr(self.msglines)
if self.msg.is_multipart():
attachmentnum=0
for part in self.msg.walk():
# multipart/* are just containers
mptype=part.get_content_maintype()
filename = part.get_filename()
if mptype == "multipart": continue
if filename: # Attached object with filename
attachmentnum+=1
self.ATTACHMENTS.append(email_attachment(messagenum,
attachmentnum,
filename,
part.get_payload(decode=1)))
print "Attachment filename=%s" % filename

else: # Must be body portion of multipart
self.body=part.get_payload()

else: # Not multipart, only body portion exists
self.body=self.msg.get_payload()

return


def get(self, key):
try: return self.msg.get(key)
except:
emsg="email_msg-Unable to get email key=%s information" % key
print emsg
sys.exit(emsg)

def has_attachments(self):
return (len(self.ATTACHMENTS) > 0)

def __iter__(self):
return self

def next(self):
#
# Try to get the next attachment
#
try: ATTACHMENT=self.ATTACHMENTS[self.attachments_index]
except:
self.attachments_index=0
raise StopIteration
#
# Increment the index pointer for the next call
#
self.attachments_index+=1
return ATTACHMENT

class pop3_inbox:
def __init__(self, server, userid, password):
self._trace=0
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Entering"
self.result=0 # Result of server communication
self.MESSAGES=[] # List for storing message objects
self.messages_index=0 # Index of message for next method
#
# See if I can connect using information provided
#
try:
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Calling
poplib.POP3(server)"
self.connection=poplib.POP3(server)
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Calling
connection.user(userid)"
self.connection.user(userid)
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Calling
connection.pass_(password)"
self.connection.pass_(password)

except:
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Login failure,
closing connection"
self.result=1
self.connection.quit()

#
# Get count of messages and size of mailbox
#
if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Calling
connection.stat()"
self.msgcount, self.size=self.connection.stat()
#
# Loop over all the messages processing each one in turn
#
for msgnum in range(1, self.msgcount+1):
self.MESSAGES.append(email_msg(msgnum,
self.connection.retr(msgnum)))

if self._trace: print "pop3_inbox.__init__-Leaving"
return

def close(self):
self.connection.quit()
return

def remove(self, msgnumorlist):
if isinstance(msgnumorlist, int): self.connection.dele(msgnumorlist)
elif isinstance(msgnumorlist, (list, tuple)):
map(self.connection.dele, msgnumorlist)
else:
emsg="pop3_inbox.remove-msgnumorlist must be type int, list, or
tuple, not %s" % type(msgnumorlist)
print emsg
sys.exit(emsg)

self.msgcount-=1
return

def __len__(self):
return self.msgcount

def __iter__(self):
return self

def next(self):
#
# Try to get the next attachment
#
try: MESSAGE=self.MESSAGES[self.messages_index]
except:
self.messages_index=0
raise StopIteration
#
# Increment the index pointer for the next call
#
self.messages_index+=1
return MESSAGE

if __name__=="__main__":
server="www.domain.com" # set server here
userid="userid" # set userid here
password="password" # set password here
inbox=pop3_inbox(server, userid, password)
if inbox.result:
emsg="Failure connecting to pop3_inbox"
print emsg
sys.exit(emsg)

print "Message count=%i, Inbox size=%i" % (inbox.msgcount, inbox.size)

counter=0
for m in inbox:
counter+=1
print "Subject: %s" % m.get('subject')
print "-------------Message (%i) body lines---------------" %
counter
print m.body
print "-------------End message (%i) body lines-----------" %
counter
if m.has_attachments():
acounter=0
for a in m:
acounter+=1
print "-------------Message (%i) attachments-------------" %
counter
print "%i: %s" % (acounter, a.filename)
print "-------------End message (%i) attachments---------" %
counter
a.save(r"C:\temp")

else: print "-------------Message has no attachments----------"

#
# See if I can delete all messages
#
#if inbox.msgcount: inbox.remove(range(1, inbox.msgcount+1))
inbox.close()