need to strip stuff off email

[Tim Williams]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Williams" <listserver at tdw.net>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: need to strip stuff off email


>
>
> > "nephish" <nephish at xit.net> wrote in message
> > news:mailman.723.1119399951.10512.python-list at python.org...
> > > hey there,
> > > i have a script that retrieves my email, but i need it to
> > > be able to strip all the stuff off except the body (the message
itself)
> > > so i can later write it to a text file.
> > >
> > > anyone know how to accomplish this?
> > > thanks
>
> The body is:   The rest of the email after "the first blank line after the
> subject header".   In practice it is the first blank line.
>
> If you get the message into a string it can sometimes be easier to just
> RSPLIT the string at '\r\n\r\n',  if the message is in a list then the
body
> = '\r\n'.join(msg[x:]) where x = that blank line +1  ,  that way if you
> don't need any of the header info,  you don't have to decode the message
and
> rebuild it in a file.
>
> if you *are* using the email module, eg
>
> msg = email.message_from_file(a_file)
>
> then rsplit the msg to get the same result.
>
> As someone will no doubt point out,   some emails are broken and parts of
> the headers will end up in the body (even when you view the email it in a
> client),  this is very rare though.

Ah,  trying to do anything before my first cup of coffee in the morning is
always a mistake - substitute RSPLIT with LSPLIT  for both occurrences above
!!!  :(