MRAB
3/11/2010 11:07:00 PM
T wrote:
> On Mar 11, 3:13 pm, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>> T wrote:
>>> All I'm looking to do is to download messages from a POP account and
>>> retrieve the sender and subject from their headers. Right now I'm 95%
>>> of the way there, except I can't seem to figure out how to *just* get
>>> the headers. Problem is, certain email clients also include headers
>>> in the message body (i.e. if you're replying to a message), and these
>>> are all picked up as additional senders/subjects. So, I want to avoid
>>> processing anything from the message body.
>>> Here's a sample of what I have:
>>> # For each line in message
>>> for j in M.retr(i+1)[1]:
>>> # Create email message object from returned string
>>> emailMessage = email.message_from_string(j)
>>> # Get fields
>>> fields = emailMessage.keys()
>>> # If email contains "From" field
>>> if emailMessage.has_key("From"):
>>> # Get contents of From field
>>> from_field = emailMessage.__getitem__("From")
>>> I also tried using the following, but got the same results:
>>> emailMessage =
>>> email.Parser.HeaderParser().parsestr(j, headersonly=True)
>>> Any help would be appreciated!
>> If you're using poplib then use ".top" instead of ".retr".
>
> I'm still having the same issue, even with .top. Am I missing
> something?
>
> for j in M.top(i+1, 0)[1]:
> emailMessage = email.message_from_string(j)
> #emailMessage =
> email.Parser.HeaderParser().parsestr(j, headersonly=True)
> # Get fields
> fields = emailMessage.keys()
> # If email contains "From" field
> if emailMessage.has_key("From"):
> # Get contents of From field
> from_field = emailMessage.__getitem__("From")
>
> Is there another way I should be using to retrieve only the headers
> (not those in the body)?
The documentation does say:
"""unfortunately, TOP is poorly specified in the RFCs and is
frequently broken in off-brand servers."""
All I can say is that it works for me with my ISP! :-)