help with rfc822

[Gerrit Holl]

drmental at my-deja.com wrote on 948427830:
> Please help a newbie,
> 
> I'm trying to parse an email that is received with poplib, what i need
> out of it is the email address of the sender and the email body.
> 
> I've tried to store the email as a temp file and then use the
> rfc822.Message(tmpfile) and that does not return a Message instance.
> I've tried to use the StringIO and that give me an error.  Can someone
> give me a brief example of how get the email addres out of an email that
> is stored as a string?

I don't know about poplib, but suppose you have a string returned like:
'''From: foo <foo at somewhere.com>
To: bar <bar at somewher.com>
Subject: This is the subject.
X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i

Hi,

This is a test.

regards,
Gerrit.
'''

Then, you can create a StringIO instance in it using:
sio = StringIO.StringIO(s)

where s is the string returned.
You can pass 'sio' to rfc822.Message now!

regards,
Gerrit.

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