I've set up inside of my CPanel to have all emails sent to x#x.com to be piped into a python script of mine. How would I go about having any attachments saved into a specific directory on the server and perhaps see the subject/message of the email itself?
You can use the email package to process MIME-formatted email messages. Use email.parser.FeedParser to parse the message and get back an email.message.Message object:
Treat it like a dictionary to get header fields like Subject.
Use is_multipart() to check whether it is multipart and therefore might have attachments (or it might just be a plain-text + HTML message).
Use the walk() method to recursively walk over all multipart submessages. Submessages with a Content-Disposition header starting with attachment are attachments, and you can get their contents using get_payload().
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I want to write a python that can sends data to a draft message, but NOT Send the mail directly.
Situation:
I'm a 3D animator. After done some shots, we need to send email(not internet, just in our company) to Lighting Team.
So we have some mail form, but sometimes we need to fix some words manual(version,texture..etc).
like below:
Shot Name : XXXX_seqXXX_scXXX
File Locate(hair + cloth) : please import X:\XX\XX\XX\XXX_ABC.ma
File include:
XXX_hair **(use version 1)**
XXX_cloth
ZZZ_cloth **(No texture)**
any problem please tell me.
Thanks.
Ezylryb
Question is:
Now I can write into a file, but I don't know how to open mail software(win7 Livemail) and create a new mail has these content. I'm try to use smtplib, but it will send mail directly..
Could anyone help me??
Many Thanks!!!!
Ezylryb
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Finally, I write HTML code into a .html file, and a eml file with email address + Title + CC, and use os.startfile to open both files.
And I can copy/paste to draft email ^O^.
Coz we need some chinese words, so use big5 code in eml, and use qupori module to decode MIME words to Chinese words in html file.
A "draft" is a feature which your email client (in this case Win7 livemail) implements by itself. It's more or less just an email in a mailbox that the client hasn't sent yet. Mail folders like your "outbox" etc. are similar.
It's not something that Python has access to. If the mail client uses a standard mailbox format, you might be able to create the email and write it into the mailbox using mailbox module. If not, the best you can do is to write out your draft email into a file and then open that in your mail client and manually edit it.
I'm trying to retrieve new mails from sent mail folder of Gmail using IMAP, but in the sent folder every messages are has the \Seen flag set. So I cannot retrieve the latest messages in the folder.
imap_conn.select("[Gmail]/Sent Mail")
typ, data = imap_conn.search(None,since_date,'UnSeen')
Do anyone have idea for how to retrieve the new mails from sent folder?
For the name to use for your 'Sent Items' folders check:
mail.list()
Make sure you use the extra quotes in your string, e.g.:
imap_conn.select('"[Gmail]/Sent Mail"')
That worked for me.
Although less efficient then Gryphius' answer, you create a custom IMAP flag and then mark all the message you have seen with that custom flag.
Here is an example from SO:
javamail: Setting custom flags on imap mail and searching for mails with custom flags
I am trying to send an email using python that has the standard To From, body, etc. However this is where my question comes in. My python script takes information in a string and manipulates it(adds,removes, formats, etc) I am trying to take this output and send it as an attachment on-the-fly. I know I can dump the output to a text file and then attach it to the email. However, due to the security of this CGI script I cannot write to the CGI directory. Is there a way to dynamically create a textfile object and send it as an attachment?
Using Python SMTP module.
I cannot create a traditional static text file due to permissions. I would like to see if Python is able to create a text file upon execution that i can populate with data and then attach to the email smtp module.
The last example on this page shows how to create and send multi-part MIME message that contains text and HTML parts using the smtplib andemail modules. It should be easily adaptable to your need to send a message as an attachment (ideally the attachment should have a content-type of message/rfc822).
Are you using smtplib and email.mime.multipart modules? the attach() method of the MIMEMultipart class accepts chunk of data to be attached, not a file.
How can i write in python or ruby a script to do content filtering in postfix via smtp or uucp (not pipe)? There is some examples?
If you don't need the whole mail body to process it, you could simply write a policy server for Postfix, see Access policy delegation.
If you need to process the whole mail, you have several possibilities, see Postfix Content Inspection.
You could either implement a content filter (see FILTER_README) which gets the mail via SMTP or LMTP and, after processing it, sends it back to Postfix through SMTP, or you could implement a milter, for which appropriate libraries for Python exist.
Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way, but I want to parse a single "catch all" email inbox via Python. I see the email module and I can make it parse an individual email, but what I want to do is open (for example) /var/spool/mail/catchall and parse all of the individual messages inside it. Opening that file and running the parser over it treats the whole thing as one giant email. How would I break it into individual messages?
Alternatively: is this A Bad Idea, given I'm going to want to delete the messages when I'm done with them? I'm tying this route instead of POP/ IMAP only because the server support isn't available right now.
You'll want to use mailbox to actually go through the mailbox.