[Tutor] parsing email

[Mike Hansen]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the reply. I'm told they are text files with each message 
having its own text file.

Mike

Michael Janssen wrote:

>On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Mike Hansen wrote:
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>>Getting attacked by MyDoom at our site, our NT Admin asked if we could
>>write a script to delete messages. In the time it would have taken us to
>>write the script and have him install the appropriate language(Perl
>>and/or Python),  he would have had it cleaned up already. Anyway, I
>>thought I'd try to write a script for when this happens in the
>>future.(Another virus, another mess)
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>>Is there a method of the email parser that can retrieve the subject? Is
>>there a dictionary that has a key with the subject? Is using the email
>>parser the best way to do this?
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>From where do you want to delete the mails? When they have made it into
>the System-Inbox (Or how it's named on NT. The place from where the user
>get mails via POP or IMAP)?
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>The first task is to get a *single* mail out of a mailbox (or split it
>into several mails). Then you might look out for subjects or want might
>be good enough as a distinction between virus <-> legitmate mail.
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>When you want to work on your System-Inboxes - are they in plain text or
>binary?
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>Michael
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