I'm currently trying to download emails from an IMAP server using
Python. I can download the emails just fine but I'm having an issue when
it comes to splitting the relevant headers. Basically I'm using the
following to fetch the headers of an email message:
typ, msg_header_content = self.m.fetch(msg_id, '(BODY.PEEK[HEADER])')
then I can get a string containing the headers by accessing
msg_header_content[0][1]. This works fine but I need to split the
Subject header, the From header and the To header out into separate
strings so I can save the information in a database.
I thought the following regular expressions would do the trick when
using re.MULTILINE when matching them to the header string but
apparently that appears to be wrong.
msg_subject_regex = re.compile(r'^Subject:\.+\r\n')
msg_from_regex = re.compile(r'^From:\.+\r\n')
msg_to_regex = re.compile(r'^To:\.+\r\n')
Can anyone point me in the right direction for this please? I'm at a
loss here.
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