I'm trying to delete some messages from a mailbox when they are older
than a certain number of days.
If I iterate through the mailbox and find a message that needs
deleting how do I get its key so I can do "remove(key)"?
The trouble is that, as the documentation says: "The default Mailbox
iterator iterates over message representations, not keys as the
default dictionary iterator does." So if you try something like:-
for f in os.listdir(junkdir):
mbxPath = os.path.join(junkdir, f)
mbx = mailbox.mbox(mbxPath, factory=None)
mbx.lock()
for k, msg in mbx:
if <something is true>
msg.remove(k)
mbx.flush()
mbx.unlock()
Then you get an exception on "for k, msg in mbx" which is an attribute
error, presumably because a mailbox isn't a 'real' iterator. So how,
do I get that key value?
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