emlx 0.1.0

The leightweight parser for emlx files.

Emlx

Emlx is the lightweight parser for .emlx files as used by Mail.app.

Install

Install and update using pip:

pip install emlx

Example

>>> import emlx
>>> message = emlx.read("12345.emlx")
>>> message.bytecount
1781
>>> message.data.keys()
['Message-Id', 'From', 'Mime-Version', 'Content-Type', 'Subject', 'Date', ...]
>>> message.data["Message-Id"]
'<[e-mail]>'
>>> message.plist
{'date-received': 1581123200, 'flags': {'read': True, ...}, ...}

History

The emlx file format was introduced by Apple in 2005. It is similar to eml-files with an added bytecount (start) and plist (end). For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email#Filename_extensions