[Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt

[Kalpana Sinduria]

Thanks for reply. i tried to hard to get the file format of microsoft
outlook (.msg). but didn't get it.
any idea, from where i can get that?


-----Original Message-----
From: Barry Warsaw [mailto:barry at python.org]
Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2005 8:57 PM
To: kalpana.sinduria at patni.com
Cc: email-sig at python.org
Subject: RE: [Email-SIG] save .msg as .txt


On Sun, 2005-05-08 at 05:39, Kalpana Sinduria wrote:

> 	no it's not in plain .txt format. it's in Microsoft's outlook message
> (.msg) format.
> 	I tired the following code, but it's not working
>
> 	******************
> 	  import email.Parser
>         fp = open('mymail.msg', 'rb')
>         p = email.Parser.Parser()
>         msg = p.parse(fp)  ---- > error
>         fp.close()
> 	 ******************

Yeah, there's no way that's going to work.  email.Parser (really
FeedParser in 3.0) can only parse RFC 2822 messages.  The nice thing is
that if you could write a parser for MS Outlook files, you could then
use the rest of the email package to manipulate those message objects.
Contributions are welcome. :)

-Barry




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