On Thu, 18 Jul 2019, Michael C Robinson wrote:
I wrote a simple script that greps an mbox for the subjects of every
email in it. Problem is, a lot of these subjects are htmlized or
something similar and are not plain text. Any suggestions on
alternative approaches to extracting the subjects of every email in
the spam box and emailing them to myself?
Python, among other tools, will decode the UTF-8 headers for you,
e.g.,
Python 2.7.10 (default, Oct 6 2017, 22:29:07)
[GCC 4.2.1 Compatible Apple LLVM 9.0.0 (clang-900.0.31)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
import email
from email.header import decode_header
decode_header(u'=?UTF-8?B?U3RpY2sgdGhpcyB0byB5b3VyIHNraW4gYW5kIG1lbHQgMWxiL2RheS4uLg==?=')
[('Stick this to your skin and melt 1lb/day...', 'utf-8')]
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