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Simple script to dump an IMAP folder into eml files, store email using the message-id
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
#-*- coding:utf-8 -*- | |
import imaplib | |
import argparse | |
import email | |
import re | |
argparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Dump a IMAP folder into .eml files") | |
argparser.add_argument('-s', dest='host', help="IMAP host, like imap.gmail.com", required=True) | |
argparser.add_argument('-u', dest='username', help="IMAP username", required=True) | |
argparser.add_argument('-p', dest='password', help="IMAP password", required=True) | |
argparser.add_argument('-r', dest='remote_folder', help="Remote folder to download", default='INBOX') | |
argparser.add_argument('-l', dest='local_folder', help="Local folder where to save .eml files", default='.') | |
args = argparser.parse_args() | |
mailbox = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(args.host) | |
mailbox.login(args.username, args.password) | |
mailbox.select(args.remote_folder) | |
typ, data = mailbox.search(None, 'ALL') | |
for num in data[0].split(): | |
typ, data = mailbox.fetch(num, '(RFC822)') | |
for response_part in data: | |
if isinstance(response_part, tuple): | |
msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1]) | |
if msg['Message-Id']: | |
filename = re.sub('[^a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.()\s]+', '', msg['Message-Id']) | |
f = open('%s/%s.eml' %(args.local_folder, filename), 'w') | |
print >> f, data[0][1] | |
else: | |
print 'No Message-Id for %s' %(msg['Subject']) | |
mailbox.close() | |
mailbox.logout() |
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