reading Unix mailbox

[Alessio Pace]

Skip Montanaro wrote:

>     Alessio> I am using Python2.3 alpha and I thought there was something
>     Alessio> updated to iterate over the messages of a mailbox in mbox
>     Alessio> format, but the next() method still return a deprecated
>     RFC822 Alessio> message object reference, am I wrong? Is there a way
>     to read Alessio> mailboxes in mbox format but iterating over
>     MIMEMessages?
> 
> Try:
> 
>     from spambayes import mboxutils
>     mbox = mboxutils.getmbox("somefile")
>     for msg in mbox:
>         do_stuff(msg)
> 
> Skip

But that requires to have spambayes, doesn't it?

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Alessio Pace