| 1 | n/a | # Import the email modules we'll need |
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| 2 | n/a | from email.parser import BytesParser, Parser |
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| 3 | n/a | from email.policy import default |
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| 5 | n/a | # If the e-mail headers are in a file, uncomment these two lines: |
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| 6 | n/a | # with open(messagefile, 'rb') as fp: |
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| 7 | n/a | # headers = BytesParser(policy=default).parse(fp) |
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| 9 | n/a | # Or for parsing headers in a string (this is an uncommon operation), use: |
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| 10 | n/a | headers = Parser(policy=default).parsestr( |
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| 11 | n/a | 'From: Foo Bar <user@example.com>\n' |
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| 12 | n/a | 'To: <someone_else@example.com>\n' |
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| 13 | n/a | 'Subject: Test message\n' |
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| 14 | n/a | '\n' |
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| 15 | n/a | 'Body would go here\n') |
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| 17 | n/a | # Now the header items can be accessed as a dictionary: |
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| 18 | n/a | print('To: {}'.format(headers['to'])) |
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| 19 | n/a | print('From: {}'.format(headers['from'])) |
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| 20 | n/a | print('Subject: {}'.format(headers['subject'])) |
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| 22 | n/a | # You can also access the parts of the addresses: |
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| 23 | n/a | print('Recipient username: {}'.format(headers['to'].addresses[0].username)) |
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| 24 | n/a | print('Sender name: {}'.format(headers['from'].addresses[0].display_name)) |
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