#! /usr/local/bin/python2.3 """Utilities for dealing with various types of mailboxes. This is mostly a wrapper around the various useful classes in the standard mailbox module, to do some intelligent guessing of the mailbox type given a mailbox argument. +foo -- MH mailbox +foo +foo,bar -- MH mailboxes +foo and +bar concatenated +ALL -- a shortcut for *all* MH mailboxes /foo/bar -- (existing file) a Unix-style mailbox /foo/bar/ -- (existing directory) a directory full of .txt and .lorien files /foo/bar/ -- (existing directory with a cur/ subdirectory) Maildir mailbox /foo/Mail/bar/ -- (existing directory with /Mail/ in its path) alternative way of spelling an MH mailbox """ from __future__ import generators import os import sys import glob import email import mailbox import email.Message import re import traceback class DirOfTxtFileMailbox: """Directory of files each assumed to contain an RFC-822 message. Subdirectories are traversed recursively. """ def __init__(self, dirname, factory): self.names = glob.glob(os.path.join(dirname, "*")) self.names.sort() self.factory = factory def __iter__(self): for name in self.names: if os.path.isdir(name): for mbox in DirOfTxtFileMailbox(name, self.factory): yield mbox else: try: f = open(name) except IOError: continue yield self.factory(f) f.close() def _cat(seqs): for seq in seqs: for item in seq: yield item def getmbox(name): """Return an mbox iterator given a file/directory/folder name.""" if name == "-": return [get_message(sys.stdin)] if name.startswith("+"): # MH folder name: +folder, +f1,f2,f2, or +ALL name = name[1:] import mhlib mh = mhlib.MH() if name == "ALL": names = mh.listfolders() elif ',' in name: names = name.split(',') else: names = [name] mboxes = [] mhpath = mh.getpath() for name in names: filename = os.path.join(mhpath, name) mbox = mailbox.MHMailbox(filename, get_message) mboxes.append(mbox) if len(mboxes) == 1: return iter(mboxes[0]) else: return _cat(mboxes) if os.path.isdir(name): # XXX Bogus: use a Maildir if /cur is a subdirectory, else a MHMailbox # if the pathname contains /Mail/, else a DirOfTxtFileMailbox. if os.path.exists(os.path.join(name, 'cur')): mbox = mailbox.Maildir(name, get_message) elif name.find("/Mail/") >= 0: mbox = mailbox.MHMailbox(name, get_message) else: mbox = DirOfTxtFileMailbox(name, get_message) else: fp = open(name, "rb") mbox = mailbox.PortableUnixMailbox(fp, get_message) return iter(mbox) def get_message(obj): """Return an email Message object. The argument may be a Message object already, in which case it's returned as-is. If the argument is a string or file-like object (supports read()), the email package is used to create a Message object from it. This can fail if the message is malformed. In that case, the headers (everything through the first blank line) are thrown out, and the rest of the text is wrapped in a bare email.Message.Message. Note that we can't use our own message class here, because this function is imported by tokenizer, and our message class imports tokenizer, so we get a circular import problem. In any case, this function does need anything that our message class offers, so that shouldn't matter. """ if isinstance(obj, email.Message.Message): return obj # Create an email Message object. if hasattr(obj, "read"): obj = obj.read() try: msg = email.message_from_string(obj) except email.Errors.MessageParseError: # Wrap the raw text in a bare Message object. Since the # headers are most likely damaged, we can't use the email # package to parse them, so just get rid of them first. headers = extract_headers(obj) obj = obj[len(headers):] msg = email.Message.Message() msg.set_payload(obj) return msg def as_string(msg, unixfrom=False): """Convert a Message object to a string in a safe-ish way. In email pkg version 2.5.4 and earlier, msg.as_string() can raise TypeError for some malformed messages. This catches that and attempts to return something approximating the original message. To Do: This really should be done by subclassing email.Message.Message and making this function the as_string() method. After 1.0. """ if isinstance(msg, str): return msg try: return msg.as_string(unixfrom) except TypeError: ty, val, tb = sys.exc_info() exclines = traceback.format_exception(ty, val, tb)[1:] excstr = " ".join(exclines).strip() headers = [] if unixfrom: headers.append(msg.get_unixfrom()) for (hdr, val) in msg.items(): headers.append("%s: %s" % (hdr, val)) headers.append("X-Spambayes-Exception: %s" % excstr) parts = ["%s\n" % "\n".join(headers)] boundary = msg.get_boundary() for part in msg.get_payload(): if boundary: parts.append(boundary) try: parts.append(part.as_string()) except AttributeError: parts.append(str(part)) if boundary: parts.append("--%s--" % boundary) # make sure it ends with a newline: return "\n".join(parts)+"\n" header_break_re = re.compile(r"\r?\n(\r?\n)") def extract_headers(text): """Very simple-minded header extraction: prefix of text up to blank line. A blank line is recognized via two adjacent line-ending sequences, where a line-ending sequence is a newline optionally preceded by a carriage return. If no blank line is found, all of text is considered to be a potential header section. If a blank line is found, the text up to (but not including) the blank line is considered to be a potential header section. The potential header section is returned, unless it doesn't contain a colon, in which case an empty string is returned. >>> extract_headers("abc") '' >>> extract_headers("abc\\n\\n\\n") # no colon '' >>> extract_headers("abc: xyz\\n\\n\\n") 'abc: xyz\\n' >>> extract_headers("abc: xyz\\r\\n\\r\\n\\r\\n") 'abc: xyz\\r\\n' >>> extract_headers("a: b\\ngibberish\\n\\nmore gibberish") 'a: b\\ngibberish\\n' """ m = header_break_re.search(text) if m: eol = m.start(1) text = text[:eol] if ':' not in text: text = "" return text def _test(): import doctest, mboxutils return doctest.testmod(mboxutils) if __name__ == "__main__": _test()