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#!/usr/bin/env python3

"""Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files."""

import os

import sys

import email

import errno

import mimetypes

from argparse import ArgumentParser

def main():

parser = ArgumentParser(description="""\

Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files.

""")

parser.add_argument('-d', '--directory', required=True,

help="""Unpack the MIME message into the named

directory, which will be created if it doesn't already

exist.""")

parser.add_argument('msgfile')

args = parser.parse_args()

with open(args.msgfile) as fp:

msg = email.message_from_file(fp)

try:

os.mkdir(args.directory)

except FileExistsError:

pass

counter = 1

for part in msg.walk():

# multipart/* are just containers

if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':

continue

# Applications should really sanitize the given filename so that an

# email message can't be used to overwrite important files

filename = part.get_filename()

if not filename:

ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_content_type())

if not ext:

# Use a generic bag-of-bits extension

ext = '.bin'

filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, ext)

counter += 1

with open(os.path.join(args.directory, filename), 'wb') as fp:

fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))

if __name__ == '__main__':

main()

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