Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 16:24:28 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: David.Bear@asu.edu, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: advice re mail Message-ID: <200309241624.28741.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu> References: <20030924135543.F16613@asu.edu>
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On Wednesday 24 September 2003 03:55 pm, David Bear wrote: > I need to write a program the grabs mail from a standard mail folder > and processes it. > > The trouble is I have no idea what mail file format FreeBSD uses by > default. I am using postfix, and currently postfix is my mta and mda. > I will be adding procmail as the mda. I'm guessing procmail writes > the same kind of file the postfix does... but here I'm showing my > ignorance. > > I will be using python as my language and there are modules for MH, > maildir, mbox, and mailbox... Anyone have any recommended reading for > me to better understand what I need to do? At one point, I started writing a Python script to parse email and store various parts in a database. It was a low priority; so I didn't get very far. If you'd like to look at it, I'll try to find it. I started with the maildir format for ease; because each email is in its own file. Andrew Gould
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