Parsing an MBOX file

[Oliver]

I have a client who wants to be able to parse and extract the message portions from an mbox (email) file. The mbox I have as an example has huge sections of what appears to be encrypted text. The code below extracts the text portions correctly, I think, but I'm not sure if the code is supposed to handle the seemingly-encrypted mbox text or if the mbox just has encrypted portions that can't be read.

Does the code below look correct to read/extract mbox data: to, from, subject, and body?

Thanks very much in advance,

-O

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import os import mailbox import sys import pprint print("Reading emails:") mbox_file = "/Users/oliver/Desktop/mbox" print("Processing " + mbox_file) mbox = mailbox.mbox(mbox_file) for key in mbox.iterkeys(): try: message = mbox[key] except mbox.errors.MessageParseError: continue # The message is malformed. Just leave it. print("From: " + message['from']) print("To: " + message['to']) print ("Subject: " + str(message['Subject'])) print("-----------------------------") print("Body\n") print (message) print("********************************************")

[heiner55]

Looks good.