Parsing msg/eml files with Python 2.7

python parsing eml msg
D3l_Gato picture D3l_Gato · Dec 13, 2011 · Viewed 14.9k times · Source

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?

Answer

Genester picture Genester · Jan 28, 2012

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.

Related questions

Reading .eml files with Python 3.6 using emaildata 0.3.4

I am using python 3.6.1 and I want to read in email files (.eml) for processing. I am using the emaildata 0.3.4 package, however whenever I try to import the Text class as in the documentation, I get the module errors: import …

Read More
How do I parse a string to a float or int?

In Python, how can I parse a numeric string like "545.2222" to its corresponding float value, 545.2222? Or parse the string "31" to an integer, 31? I just want to know how to parse a float str to a float, and (separately) an int …

Read More
Why can't Python parse this JSON data?

I have this JSON in a file: { "maps": [ { "id": "blabla", "iscategorical": "0" }, { "id": "blabla", "iscategorical": "0" } ], "masks": [ "id": "valore" ], "om_points": "value", "parameters": [ "id": "valore" ] } I wrote this script to print all of the JSON data: import json from pprint import pprint …

Read More