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qwerty
qwerty

Reputation: 897

script to download email attachments

i am facing an error at line 18 (m = email.message_from_string(email_body)) saying that TypeError: initial_value must be str or None, not bytes. When I try to run it by saying print (data[0][1]) it gives me an output of the email in an encoded format.

I want to debug the error. 

import imaplib
import email
import os

svdir = 'C:\\Users\\rnandipati\\Downloads'

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('outlook.office365.com',993)
mail.login("[email protected]", "R!")
mail.select("Inbox")

typ, msgs = mail.search(None, '(SUBJECT "ADP Files")')
msgs = msgs[0].split()

for emailid in msgs:
    resp, data = mail.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")

    email_body = data[0][1]
    m = email.message_from_string(email_body)

    if m.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
        continue

    for part in m.walk():
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue
        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue

        filename = part.get_filename()
        if filename is not None:
            sv_path = os.path.join(svdir, filename)
            if not os.path.isfile(sv_path):
                print(sv_path)
                fp = open(sv_path, 'wb')
                fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
                fp.close()

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1808

Answers (1)

alexis
alexis

Reputation: 50180

The email module includes a function message_from_bytes. Use that instead of message_from_string to parse a bytes object.

m = email.message_from_bytes(email_body)

Upvotes: 1

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