On Mar 11, 3:13 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > T wrote: > > All I'm looking to do is to download messages from a POP account and > > retrieve the sender and subject from their headers. Right now I'm 95% > > of the way there, except I can't seem to figure out how to *just* get > > the headers. Problem is, certain email clients also include headers > > in the message body (i.e. if you're replying to a message), and these > > are all picked up as additional senders/subjects. So, I want to avoid > > processing anything from the message body. > > > Here's a sample of what I have: > > > # For each line in message > > for j in M.retr(i+1)[1]: > > # Create email message object from returned string > > emailMessage = email.message_from_string(j) > > # Get fields > > fields = emailMessage.keys() > > # If email contains "From" field > > if emailMessage.has_key("From"): > > # Get contents of From field > > from_field = emailMessage.__getitem__("From") > > > I also tried using the following, but got the same results: > > emailMessage = > > email.Parser.HeaderParser().parsestr(j, headersonly=True) > > > Any help would be appreciated! > > If you're using poplib then use ".top" instead of ".retr".
I'm still having the same issue, even with .top. Am I missing something? for j in M.top(i+1, 0)[1]: emailMessage = email.message_from_string(j) #emailMessage = email.Parser.HeaderParser().parsestr(j, headersonly=True) # Get fields fields = emailMessage.keys() # If email contains "From" field if emailMessage.has_key("From"): # Get contents of From field from_field = emailMessage.__getitem__("From") Is there another way I should be using to retrieve only the headers (not those in the body)? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list