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newbie here needing some help.
Is there a way to set up a script that will check a pop3 account and
autosave the file attachments to a folder specified?

The thing is:
I have 1 single email account that will always have emails with nothing but
emails with attachments.

Since there will be thousands of these emails , I would like to be able to
check a couple times a day this account and have the script auto save all
attachments by their actual attached name to a specified folder.

Is this possible?

On Wed, 26 May 2004 03:33:15 GMT, "p-nut" <I-dont-gots->
wrote:

>newbie here needing some help.
>Is there a way to set up a script that will check a pop3 account and
>autosave the file attachments to a folder specified?
>
>The thing is:
>I have 1 single email account that will always have emails with nothing but
>emails with attachments.
>
>Since there will be thousands of these emails , I would like to be able to
>check a couple times a day this account and have the script auto save all
>attachments by their actual attached name to a specified folder.
>
>Is this possible?
>

Little old, but doesn't look like anyone has responded. So here.

poplib will let you access the mailbox and get messages. although
poplib docs suggest you use imaplib if you can.

It also says look at the test in the source for poplib for a more
complete example

email module will let you handle message parsing and attachment

look at get_payload()

cheers,
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