Re: Reading a Directory of Emails - Problems

[StatsJunkie]

Thanks. I tried that, but absolutely nothing is printed to the screen. 

This is the code I am trying to use.

mbox = mailbox.MHMailbox(stat_inbox.mbox/Messages,email.message_from_file) 
for msg in mbox:
 print(msg)  #just to see if anything is happening

Which mailbox type did you use? Perhaps MHMailbox in the wrong one...?


Joshua J. Kugler-2 wrote:
 
 On Tuesday 24 July 2007 09:38, Ryan Rosario wrote:
 
 Hi,
 
 I have a directory that contains a bunch of email messages and I would
 like to parse them using the email and mailbox packages. The emails were
 exported from Apple Mail. From what I gather, I need to use MHMailbox,
 but
 I can't get it to do anything useful and I cannot find any examples of
 how
 to use this particular mailbox type.
 
 
 
 I get an error. AttributeError: MHMailbox instance has no attribute
 'keys'. Yet this works when using PortableUnixMailbox (on an mbox file,
 not a directory of emails).
 
 I fought with this a while back.  It seems it is nested one level lower. 
 You might have to get at the message by doing something like
 
 real_message = msg[0]
 
 Instead of print msg.keys(), just do a 'print msg' and see what data
 structure is returned.  That will tell you a lot.
 
 j
 
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Reading a Directory of Emails - Problems

[Ryan Rosario]

Hi,

I have a directory that contains a bunch of email messages and I would like
to parse them using the email and mailbox packages. The emails were exported
from Apple Mail. From what I gather, I need to use MHMailbox, but I can't
get it to do anything useful and I cannot find any examples of how to use
this particular mailbox type.

mbox = mailbox.MHMailbox('stat_inbox.mbox/Messages',email.message_from_file)
for msg in mbox:
   print msg.keys()  #just to see if anything is happening

I get an error. AttributeError: MHMailbox instance has no attribute 'keys'.
Yet this works when using PortableUnixMailbox (on an mbox file, not a
directory of emails).

Can someone help me use this type of mailbox? Am I even using the correct
type of mailbox for this?

Thanks,
Ryan
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Re: Reading a Directory of Emails - Problems

[Joshua J. Kugler]

On Tuesday 24 July 2007 09:38, Ryan Rosario wrote:

 Hi,
 
 I have a directory that contains a bunch of email messages and I would
 like to parse them using the email and mailbox packages. The emails were
 exported from Apple Mail. From what I gather, I need to use MHMailbox, but
 I can't get it to do anything useful and I cannot find any examples of how
 to use this particular mailbox type.
 
 mbox =
 mailbox.MHMailbox('stat_inbox.mbox/Messages',email.message_from_file) for
 msg in mbox:
 print msg.keys()  #just to see if anything is happening
 
 I get an error. AttributeError: MHMailbox instance has no attribute
 'keys'. Yet this works when using PortableUnixMailbox (on an mbox file,
 not a directory of emails).

I fought with this a while back.  It seems it is nested one level lower. 
You might have to get at the message by doing something like

real_message = msg[0]

Instead of print msg.keys(), just do a 'print msg' and see what data
structure is returned.  That will tell you a lot.

j

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