I have a thunderbird email data file from which I need to extract individual email. I tried to use regex and do plain vanilla extract based on from tag but this doesn't give me the required result. An email can have another email attached within the body hence a single email can have more than one "From:" strings. How can I extract individual emails out of this data file?
Try the python mailbox module.
The mailbox module can read mbox/maildir message stores.
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Python newbie here...
I'm attempting to pull information from multiple emails within a folder in Outlook.
Everyday an email containing a table of information is sent to the mailbox and is autofiled into a folder. My aim is to pull the information from the table in these emails for the last 6 months and present this in a pandas dataframe.
I have no idea how to scrape this information from an email and would appreciate any help.
Thanks!!
It seems you need to automate Outlook to get the required information. To get all items for the last 6 months you need to use the Find/FindNext or Restrict methods of the Items class. Read more about these methods in the following articles:
How To: Use Find and FindNext methods to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder (C#, VB.NET)
How To: Use Restrict method to retrieve Outlook mail items from a folder
I want to get all my emails with all their information, e.g. Body, Subject, Date Received, Folders, Attachments, From, To, etc.
I found this:
How can I download all emails with attachments from Gmail?
But it's only subjects/from/attachments.
I copied pretty much everything and added this:
for payload in mail.get_payload():
print part.get_payload(decode=True)
But I'm getting (�� (�� (�� at times and html at times.
I just want to have simple access to an email message where everything is decoded, easily handleable.
Is there a way to pull inline images from an email within gmail to save somewhere? If not, is there a way to get the image url of the inline image?
Would IMAP or POP support this?
I've been able to pull an email via IMAP, but I can't find any trace of the inline images within the email, unless the image has been converted to strings of letters and numbers. I did a search for the image url, and couldn't find that in the resulting string either, so I'm not sure if it's possible to pull inline images from gmail.
If you can successfully pull the mail from gmail via POP3 or IMAP. Then you'll find the image maybe encoded into BASE64 string.
All you need to do is parse the image part and decode it to binary.
The following maybe useful:
MIME
Email in python
I made a Python program that is capable of sending email. However, I want to make it capable of being a default email client such that it will capture the email address and subject of HTML email links (mailto links) when the user clicks them.
How do I get the email address and subject to my client?
Currently, I can set my program as the default mail client, but I don't know what information, or format of information, it's getting from the web browser; so, I'm not sure how to parse it.
Assuming the complete link is passed in as sys.argv[1], you need to do something like this:
import urllib.parse
parsed = urllib.parse.urlparse(sys.argv[1])
mail_addr = parsed.path
fields = urllib.parse.parse_qs(parsed.query)
This sets mail_addr to the address to send the email to, while field will be a dictionary of additional parameters.
The fields that you can expect to be present are specified in RFC 6068
I am trying to use python's imaplib and email.feedparser to grab an attachment out of a gmail inbox. The email is generated by an external party and sent to us, so I have no control over it.
The trouble is that the message I am trying to parse has msg.get_content_maintype() return 'text' instead of 'multitype'. As a result the uuencoded attachment gets concatenated with the rest of the message and I don't see an ease way to pull it out of email.message.Message.
Any ideas how I can extract the attachment out of such an email?
If it is any help, the email has 'Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.3790.4862' in it. Thunderbird also had trouble rendering this email and wasn't able to figure out that it had an attachment. Otherwise, the message looks ok in Outlook and Gmail web client.
As email.parser.FeedParser documentation says you can use _factory parameter to provide your own Message class. You could put your own class derived from email.message.Message that will replace message contenttype with the correct one if this message was composed in "Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE ...blablabla".
I think it is safe to expect that the messagesin this particular case will always be multipart.