Hello All, Here's what I'm trying to do:
I need to connect to a pop3 server, download all messages, and copy all of the attachments into a specific directory. The actual email message is unimportant. Now, I've found plenty of examples that strip the attachments from an email message, but most (if not all) of them take a file parameter. My question is this: How can i retrieve an email message via poplib and pass it to email.message_from_string()? This is essentially what i'm doing now, ############## import email import poplib mimes = ["image/tif","image/tiff","images/x-tif","image/x-tiff", "application/tif","application/tiff","application/x-tif", "application/x-tiff"] def WriteAttachment(msg): docs = [(part.get_filename(),part.get_payload(decode=True)) for part in msg.get_payload() if part.get_type() in mimes] for name,data in docs: f = file(name,'wb') f.write(data) f.close() ms = poplib.POP3(server) ms.user(uname) ms.pass_(passw) msgcount = len(ms.list()[1]) for i in range(msgcount): for j in ms.retr(i+1)[1]: msg = email.message_from_string(j) WriteAttachment(msg) ################################## I'm sure i'm missing something pretty simple, i just need a slap in the right direction... TIA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list