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D3l_Gato
D3l_Gato

Reputation: 1329

Parsing msg/eml files with Python 2.7

Is there a library that can parse msg or eml files? I wrote a script that parses an email once it is converted to a txt file, but i cannot find an email client that allows me to easily drag-n-drop emails from the gui into a folder as a txt file (if someone knows this i would love to know!)

Drag-n-dropping from Outlook creates a .msg file and Thunderbird creates an .eml file. Does anyone know of a library that will parse these files like these?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 16441

Answers (3)

Taki
Taki

Reputation: 11

Yes there is, In my work, I test the MSG PY module for Independent soft company. This is Microsoft Outlook .msg file module for Python:

from independentsoft.msg import Message

appointment = Message("e:\\appointment.msg")

print("subject: " + str(appointment.subject))
print("start_time: " + str(appointment.appointment_start_time))
print("end_time: " + str(appointment.appointment_end_time))
print("location: " + str(appointment.location))
print("is_reminder_set: " + str(appointment.is_reminder_set))
print("sender_name: " + str(appointment.sender_name))
print("sender_email_address: " + str(appointment.sender_email_address))
print("display_to: " + str(appointment.display_to))
print("display_cc: " + str(appointment.display_cc))
print("body: " + str(appointment.body))

Upvotes: 0

Leon-Paul Schaub
Leon-Paul Schaub

Reputation: 99

`from mailparser import MailParser

parser = MailParser()
parser.parse_from_file(f)
parser.parse_from_string(raw_mail)
parser.body
parser.headers
parser.message_id
parser.to_
parser.from_
parser.subject
parser.text_plain_list: only text plain mail parts in a list
parser.attachments_list: list of all attachments
parser.date_mail
parser.parsed_mail_obj: tokenized mail in a object
parser.parsed_mail_json: tokenized mail in a JSON
parser.defects: defect RFC not compliance
parser.defects_category: only defects categories
parser.has_defects
parser.anomalies
parser.has_anomalies
parser.get_server_ipaddress(trust="my_server_mail_trust")`

Upvotes: 2

Genester
Genester

Reputation: 89

For *.eml files you can use email module from standard library. You will need to use Parser from email.parser to create a message object.

Upvotes: 8

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