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

def getbody(message): #getting plain text 'email body'
    body = None
    if message.is_multipart():
        for part in message.walk():
            if part.is_multipart():
                for subpart in part.walk():
                    if subpart.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                        body = subpart.get_payload(decode=True)
            elif part.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
                body = part.get_payload(decode=True)
    elif message.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
        body = message.get_payload(decode=True)
    return body

this function can give you message body if the body is plain text.