Doc/includes/email-unpack.py
#!/usr/bin/env python """Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files.""" import os import sys import email import errno import mimetypes from optparse import OptionParser def main(): parser = OptionParser(usage="""\ Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files. Usage: %prog [options] msgfile """) parser.add_option('-d', '--directory', type='string', action='store', help="""Unpack the MIME message into the named directory, which will be created if it doesn't already exist.""") opts, args = parser.parse_args() if not opts.directory: parser.print_help() sys.exit(1) try: msgfile = args[0] except IndexError: parser.print_help() sys.exit(1) try: os.mkdir(opts.directory) except OSError as e: # Ignore directory exists error if e.errno != errno.EEXIST: raise fp = open(msgfile) msg = email.message_from_file(fp) fp.close() counter = 1 for part in msg.walk(): # multipart/* are just containers if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart': continue # Applications should really sanitize the given filename so that an # email message can't be used to overwrite important files filename = part.get_filename() if not filename: ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_content_type()) if not ext: # Use a generic bag-of-bits extension ext = '.bin' filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, ext) counter += 1 fp = open(os.path.join(opts.directory, filename), 'wb') fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True)) fp.close() if __name__ == '__main__': main() |