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#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files."""
import os
import sys
import email
import errno
import mimetypes
from optparse import OptionParser
def main():
parser = OptionParser(usage="""\
Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files.
Usage: %prog [options] msgfile
""")
parser.add_option('-d', '--directory',
type='string', action='store',
help="""Unpack the MIME message into the named
directory, which will be created if it doesn't already
exist.""")
opts, args = parser.parse_args()
if not opts.directory:
parser.print_help()
sys.exit(1)
try:
msgfile = args[0]
except IndexError:
parser.print_help()
sys.exit(1)
try:
os.mkdir(opts.directory)
except OSError, e:
# Ignore directory exists error
if e.errno <> errno.EEXIST:
raise
fp = open(msgfile)
msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
fp.close()
counter = 1
for part in msg.walk():
# multipart/* are just containers
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
continue
# Applications should really sanitize the given filename so that an
# email message can't be used to overwrite important files
filename = part.get_filename()
if not filename:
ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_type())
if not ext:
# Use a generic bag-of-bits extension
ext = '.bin'
filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, ext)
counter += 1
fp = open(os.path.join(opts.directory, filename), 'wb')
fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
fp.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()