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Edit File: emailutil.py

# Some useful functions to extract data out of emails # Copyright (C) 2002-2015 John Goerzen & contributors # # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA import email from email.Parser import Parser as MailParser def get_message_date(content, header='Date'): """Parses mail and returns resulting timestamp. :param header: the header to extract date from; :returns: timestamp or `None` in the case of failure. """ message = MailParser().parsestr(content, True) dateheader = message.get(header) # parsedate_tz returns a 10-tuple that can be passed to mktime_tz # Will be None if missing or not in a valid format. Note that # indexes 6, 7, and 8 of the result tuple are not usable. datetuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(dateheader) if datetuple is None: return None return email.utils.mktime_tz(datetuple)