On 02/04/2014 06:38 PM, Some Developer wrote:
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.
I have no idea of the pattern or structure of email headers. Would you post some
example of 'msg_header_content[0][1]'?
In the meantine, try to suppress \r from the regex formats. (Shouldn't be here,
because when reading strings from files, python converts newlines into \n; also
try "'\r' in s" or "'\r\n' in s" to be sure.)
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