# RFC-822 message manipulation class. # # XXX This is only a very rough sketch of a full RFC-822 parser; # in particular the tokenizing of addresses does not adhere to all the # quoting rules. # # Directions for use: # # To create a Message object: first open a file, e.g.: # fp = open(file, 'r') # (or use any other legal way of getting an open file object, e.g. use # sys.stdin or call os.popen()). # Then pass the open file object to the Message() constructor: # m = Message(fp) # # To get the text of a particular header there are several methods: # str = m.getheader(name) # str = m.getrawheader(name) # where name is the name of the header, e.g. 'Subject'. # The difference is that getheader() strips the leading and trailing # whitespace, while getrawheader() doesn't. Both functions retain # embedded whitespace (including newlines) exactly as they are # specified in the header, and leave the case of the text unchanged. # # For addresses and address lists there are functions # realname, mailaddress = m.getaddr(name) and # list = m.getaddrlist(name) # where the latter returns a list of (realname, mailaddr) tuples. # # There is also a method # time = m.getdate(name) # which parses a Date-like field and returns a time-compatible tuple, # i.e. a tuple such as returned by time.localtime() or accepted by # time.mktime(). # # See the class definition for lower level access methods. # # There are also some utility functions here. import regex import string import time class Message: # Initialize the class instance and read the headers. def __init__(self, fp): self.fp = fp # try: self.startofheaders = self.fp.tell() except IOError: self.startofheaders = None # self.readheaders() # try: self.startofbody = self.fp.tell() except IOError: self.startofbody = None # Rewind the file to the start of the body (if seekable). def rewindbody(self): self.fp.seek(self.startofbody) # Read header lines up to the entirely blank line that # terminates them. The (normally blank) line that ends the # headers is skipped, but not included in the returned list. # If a non-header line ends the headers, (which is an error), # an attempt is made to backspace over it; it is never # included in the returned list. # # The variable self.status is set to the empty string if all # went well, otherwise it is an error message. # The variable self.headers is a completely uninterpreted list # of lines contained in the header (so printing them will # reproduce the header exactly as it appears in the file). def readheaders(self): self.headers = list = [] self.status = '' headerseen = 0 firstline = 1 while 1: line = self.fp.readline() if not line: self.status = 'EOF in headers' break # Skip unix From name time lines if firstline and line[:5] == 'From ': continue firstline = 0 if self.islast(line): break elif headerseen and line[0] in ' \t': # It's a continuation line. list.append(line) elif regex.match('^[!-9;-~]+:', line) >= 0: # It's a header line. list.append(line) headerseen = 1 else: # It's not a header line; stop here. if not headerseen: self.status = 'No headers' else: self.status = 'Bad header' # Try to undo the read. try: self.fp.seek(-len(line), 1) except IOError: self.status = \ self.status + '; bad seek' break # Method to determine whether a line is a legal end of # RFC-822 headers. You may override this method if your # application wants to bend the rules, e.g. to strip trailing # whitespace, or to recognise MH template separators # ('--------'). For convenience (e.g. for code reading from # sockets) a line consisting of \r\n also matches. def islast(self, line): return line == '\n' or line == '\r\n' # Look through the list of headers and find all lines matching # a given header name (and their continuation lines). # A list of the lines is returned, without interpretation. # If the header does not occur, an empty list is returned. # If the header occurs multiple times, all occurrences are # returned. Case is not important in the header name. def getallmatchingheaders(self, name): name = string.lower(name) + ':' n = len(name) list = [] hit = 0 for line in self.headers: if string.lower(line[:n]) == name: hit = 1 elif line[:1] not in string.whitespace: hit = 0 if hit: list.append(line) return list # Similar, but return only the first matching header (and its # continuation lines). def getfirstmatchingheader(self, name): name = string.lower(name) + ':' n = len(name) list = [] hit = 0 for line in self.headers: if hit: if line[:1] not in string.whitespace: break elif string.lower(line[:n]) == name: hit = 1 if hit: list.append(line) return list # A higher-level interface to getfirstmatchingheader(). # Return a string containing the literal text of the header # but with the keyword stripped. All leading, trailing and # embedded whitespace is kept in the string, however. # Return None if the header does not occur. def getrawheader(self, name): list = self.getfirstmatchingheader(name) if not list: return None list[0] = list[0][len(name) + 1:] return string.joinfields(list, '') # Going one step further: also strip leading and trailing # whitespace. def getheader(self, name): text = self.getrawheader(name) if text == None: return None return string.strip(text) # Retrieve a single address from a header as a tuple, e.g. # ('Guido van Rossum', 'guido@cwi.nl'). def getaddr(self, name): data = self.getheader(name) if not data: return None, None return parseaddr(data) # Retrieve a list of addresses from a header, where each # address is a tuple as returned by getaddr(). def getaddrlist(self, name): # XXX This function is not really correct. The split # on ',' might fail in the case of commas within # quoted strings. data = self.getheader(name) if not data: return [] data = string.splitfields(data, ',') for i in range(len(data)): data[i] = parseaddr(data[i]) return data # Retrieve a date field from a header as a tuple compatible # with time.mktime(). def getdate(self, name): data = self.getheader(name) if not data: return None return parsedate(data) # Access as a dictionary (only finds first header of each type): def __len__(self): types = {} for line in self.headers: if line[0] in string.whitespace: continue i = string.find(line, ':') if i > 0: name = string.lower(line[:i]) types[name] = None return len(types) def __getitem__(self, name): value = self.getheader(name) if value is None: raise KeyError, name return value def has_key(self, name): value = self.getheader(name) return value is not None def keys(self): types = {} for line in self.headers: if line[0] in string.whitespace: continue i = string.find(line, ':') if i > 0: name = line[:i] key = string.lower(name) types[key] = name return types.values() def values(self): values = [] for name in self.keys(): values.append(self[name]) return values def items(self): items = [] for name in self.keys(): items.append(name, self[name]) return items # Utility functions # ----------------- # XXX Should fix these to be really conformant. # XXX The inverses of the parse functions may also be useful. # Remove quotes from a string. def unquote(str): if len(str) > 1: if str[0] == '"' and str[-1:] == '"': return str[1:-1] if str[0] == '<' and str[-1:] == '>': return str[1:-1] return str # Parse an address into (name, address) tuple def parseaddr(address): # This is probably not perfect address = string.strip(address) # Case 1: part of the address is in form. pos = regex.search('<.*>', address) if pos >= 0: name = address[:pos] address = address[pos:] length = regex.match('<.*>', address) name = name + address[length:] address = address[:length] else: # Case 2: part of the address is in (comment) form pos = regex.search('(.*)', address) if pos >= 0: name = address[pos:] address = address[:pos] length = regex.match('(.*)', name) address = address + name[length:] name = name[:length] else: # Case 3: neither. Only an address name = '' name = string.strip(name) address = string.strip(address) if address and address[0] == '<' and address[-1] == '>': address = address[1:-1] if name and name[0] == '(' and name[-1] == ')': name = name[1:-1] return name, address # Parse a date field _monthnames = ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'] def parsedate(data): # XXX This still mostly ignores timezone matters at the moment... data = string.split(data) if data[0][-1] == ',': # There's a dayname here. Skip it del data[0] if len(data) == 4: s = data[3] i = string.find(s, '+') if i > 0: data[3:] = [s[:i], s[i+1:]] else: data.append('') # Dummy tz if len(data) < 5: return None data = data[:5] [dd, mm, yy, tm, tz] = data if not mm in _monthnames: return None mm = _monthnames.index(mm)+1 tm = string.splitfields(tm, ':') if len(tm) == 2: [thh, tmm] = tm tss = '0' else: [thh, tmm, tss] = tm try: yy = string.atoi(yy) dd = string.atoi(dd) thh = string.atoi(thh) tmm = string.atoi(tmm) tss = string.atoi(tss) except string.atoi_error: return None tuple = (yy, mm, dd, thh, tmm, tss, 0, 0, 0) return tuple # When used as script, run a small test program. # The first command line argument must be a filename containing one # message in RFC-822 format. if __name__ == '__main__': import sys file = '/ufs/guido/Mail/drafts/,1' if sys.argv[1:]: file = sys.argv[1] f = open(file, 'r') m = Message(f) print 'From:', m.getaddr('from') print 'To:', m.getaddrlist('to') print 'Subject:', m.getheader('subject') print 'Date:', m.getheader('date') date = m.getdate('date') if date: print 'ParsedDate:', time.asctime(date) else: print 'ParsedDate:', None m.rewindbody() n = 0 while f.readline(): n = n + 1 print 'Lines:', n print '-'*70 print 'len =', len(m) if m.has_key('Date'): print 'Date =', m['Date'] if m.has_key('X-Nonsense'): pass print 'keys =', m.keys() print 'values =', m.values() print 'items =', m.items()