On 12 Sep., 16:39, Istvan Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This line reads an entire message into memory as a string. Is it > possible that you have a huge email in there (hundreds of MB) with > some attachment encoded as text?
No, the largest single message with the mbox is about 100KB large. > For now I would recommend that you split your mbox file into several > smaller ones. (I think all you need is to split at the To: fields) and > run your script on these individual files. I get it to work with splitting the mbox file into single files, one for each message, with the git-mailsplit tool, that is included in the gitk package. This solved the problem for now. Thanks for all your help. Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
