Reading the mail content of an mbox file using python mailbox

Question

I am trying to print the content of the mail ( Mail body) using Python mailbox.

import mailbox

mbox = mailbox.mbox(\'Inbox\')
i=1
for message in mbox:
             


        

Answer 1

To get the message content, you want to use get_payload(). mailbox.Message is a subclass of email.message.Message. You'll also want to check is_multipart() because that will affect the return value of get_payload(). Example:

if message.is_multipart():
    content = ''.join(part.get_payload(decode=True) for part in message.get_payload())
else:
    content = message.get_payload(decode=True)