从mbox文件中提取电子邮件的正文,将其解码为纯文本,而不管Charset和Content Transfer Encoding

时间:2011-08-23 20:08:27

标签: email python-3.x content-type plaintext mbox

我正在尝试使用Python 3从thunderbird mbox文件中提取电子邮件的正文。这是一个IMAP帐户。

我希望将电子邮件正文的文本部分作为unicode字符串进行处理。它应该“看起来像”Thunderbird中的电子邮件,并且不包含转义字符,例如\ r \ n = 20等。

我认为内容传输编码我不知道如何解码或删除。 我收到的电子邮件包含各种不同的内容类型和不同的内容传输编码。 这是我目前的尝试:

import mailbox
import quopri,base64

def myconvert(encoded,ContentTransferEncoding):
    if ContentTransferEncoding == 'quoted-printable':
        result = quopri.decodestring(encoded)
    elif ContentTransferEncoding == 'base64':
        result = base64.b64decode(encoded)

mboxfile = 'C:/Users/Username/Documents/Thunderbird/Data/profile/ImapMail/server.name/INBOX'

for msg in mailbox.mbox(mboxfile):
    if msg.is_multipart():    #Walk through the parts of the email to find the text body.
        for part in msg.walk():
            if part.is_multipart(): # If part is multipart, walk through the subparts.
                for subpart in part.walk():
                    if subpart.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                        body = subpart.get_payload() # Get the subpart payload (i.e the message body)
                    for k,v in subpart.items():
                            if k == 'Content-Transfer-Encoding':
                                cte = v             # Keep the Content Transfer Encoding
            elif subpart.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                body = part.get_payload()           # part isn't multipart Get the payload
                for k,v in part.items():
                    if k == 'Content-Transfer-Encoding':
                        cte = v                      # Keep the Content Transfer Encoding

print(body)
print('Body is of type:',type(body))
body = myconvert(body,cte)
print(body)

但这失败了:

Body is of type: <class 'str'>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:/Users/David/Documents/Python/test2.py", line 31, in <module>
  body = myconvert(body,cte)
File "C:/Users/David/Documents/Python/test2.py", line 6, in myconvert
  result = quopri.decodestring(encoded)
File "C:\Python32\lib\quopri.py", line 164, in decodestring
  return a2b_qp(s, header=header)
TypeError: 'str' does not support the buffer interface

2 个答案:

答案 0 :(得分:21)

这是一些完成工作的代码,它会打印错误,而不是为那些失败的消息崩溃。我希望它可能有用。请注意,如果Python 3中存在错误,并且已修复,则行.get_payload(decode = True)可能会返回str对象而不是bytes对象。我今天在2.7.2和Python 3.2.1上运行了这段代码。

import mailbox

def getcharsets(msg):
    charsets = set({})
    for c in msg.get_charsets():
        if c is not None:
            charsets.update([c])
    return charsets

def handleerror(errmsg, emailmsg,cs):
    print()
    print(errmsg)
    print("This error occurred while decoding with ",cs," charset.")
    print("These charsets were found in the one email.",getcharsets(emailmsg))
    print("This is the subject:",emailmsg['subject'])
    print("This is the sender:",emailmsg['From'])

def getbodyfromemail(msg):
    body = None
    #Walk through the parts of the email to find the text body.    
    if msg.is_multipart():    
        for part in msg.walk():

            # If part is multipart, walk through the subparts.            
            if part.is_multipart(): 

                for subpart in part.walk():
                    if subpart.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                        # Get the subpart payload (i.e the message body)
                        body = subpart.get_payload(decode=True) 
                        #charset = subpart.get_charset()

            # Part isn't multipart so get the email body
            elif part.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                body = part.get_payload(decode=True)
                #charset = part.get_charset()

    # If this isn't a multi-part message then get the payload (i.e the message body)
    elif msg.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
        body = msg.get_payload(decode=True) 

   # No checking done to match the charset with the correct part. 
    for charset in getcharsets(msg):
        try:
            body = body.decode(charset)
        except UnicodeDecodeError:
            handleerror("UnicodeDecodeError: encountered.",msg,charset)
        except AttributeError:
             handleerror("AttributeError: encountered" ,msg,charset)
    return body    


#mboxfile = 'C:/Users/Username/Documents/Thunderbird/Data/profile/ImapMail/server.name/INBOX'
print(mboxfile)
for thisemail in mailbox.mbox(mboxfile):
    body = getbodyfromemail(thisemail)
    print(body[0:1000])

答案 1 :(得分:2)

此脚本似乎正确返回所有消息:

def getcharsets(msg):
    charsets = set({})
    for c in msg.get_charsets():
        if c is not None:
            charsets.update([c])
    return charsets

def getBody(msg):
    while msg.is_multipart():
        msg=msg.get_payload()[0]
    t=msg.get_payload(decode=True)
    for charset in getcharsets(msg):
        t=t.decode(charset)
    return t

来自acd的回答通常只返回真实消息的一些页脚。 ( 至少在我为这个工具箱打开的GMANE电子邮件中: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/gmane

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