mailbox_maildir_create.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
# encoding: utf-8
#
# Copyright (c) 2008 Doug Hellmann All rights reserved.
#
"""
"""

#end_pymotw_header
import mailbox
import email.utils
import os

from_addr = email.utils.formataddr(('Author',
                                    'author@example.com'))
to_addr = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient',
                                  'recipient@example.com'))

payload = '''This is the body.
From (will not be escaped).
There are 3 lines.
'''

mbox = mailbox.Maildir('Example')
mbox.lock()
try:
    msg = mailbox.mboxMessage()
    msg.set_unixfrom('author Sat Feb  7 01:05:34 2009')
    msg['From'] = from_addr
    msg['To'] = to_addr
    msg['Subject'] = 'Sample message 1'
    msg.set_payload(payload)
    mbox.add(msg)
    mbox.flush()

    msg = mailbox.mboxMessage()
    msg.set_unixfrom('author Sat Feb  7 01:05:34 2009')
    msg['From'] = from_addr
    msg['To'] = to_addr
    msg['Subject'] = 'Sample message 2'
    msg.set_payload('This is the second body.\n')
    mbox.add(msg)
    mbox.flush()
finally:
    mbox.unlock()

for dirname, subdirs, files in os.walk('Example'):
    print(dirname)
    print('  Directories:', subdirs)
    for name in files:
        fullname = os.path.join(dirname, name)
        print('\n***', fullname)
        print(open(fullname).read())
        print('*' * 20)