email scanning for X-Spam-Score

[Peter Otten]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> my emails received from our mailing system contain a field like
> 
> X-Spam-Score: -2.2
> 
> Given the full email message in 'msg'
> I've tried
>    mailmsg = email.message_from_string(msg)
>    SPAM_CORE = mailmsg['X-Spam-Score']
> but it doesn't work.

What do you mean by "doesn't work"?

> What am I missing?

No idea. It seems to "work" over here:

Python 2.6.2 (release26-maint, Apr 19 2009, 01:58:18)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import email
>>> spam = open("spam.txt").read()
>>> m = email.message_from_string(spam)
>>> m["X-Spam-Score"]
'15.0 (+++++++++++++++)'

Peter