In order to locate the MBOX files it is important to know how and where the email clients store the mail and other files. Thunderbird: Thunderbird is an open source email client that allows users to manage business related email accounts.
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> Can Python parse a mbox file and forward each individual message within
that file to someone else? Yes. For example, let's say I have a 10MB mbox file that has 678 messages. I'd like to send each of the messages to sa*********@northpole.com... how might I do that? Also, how might I handle messages that have an attachment associated with them during the forward process?
import smtplib def find_all_at_linestart(data, st): start = 0 if data[:len(st)] st: start += len(st) yield 0 end = len(data) st = n'+st while start < end: nstart = data.find(st, start, end) if nstart -1: return start = nstart+len(st) yield nstart def forward_email(mboxfname, email_from, email_to, host, port): mail = open('mboxfname', 'rb').read() lst = list(find_all_at_linestart(mail, 'From ')) smtpc = smtplib.SMTP(host, port) for i in xrange(len(lst)-1): start = lst[i] end = lst[i+1] #strip off the mbox From ... line r = mail.find('n', start, end) email = mail[r+1:end] if email: smtpc.sendmail(email_from, [email_to], email) start = lst[-1] end = len(mail) r = mail.find('n', start, end) email = mail[r+1:end] if email: smtpc.sendmail(email_from, [email_to], email) smtpc.close() Pardon if it doesn't quite work, this was done in my email client, and has not been tested. - Josiah