MailKite mail-parse (Python)

Streaming, memory-efficient MIME email parser — the Python port of @mailkite/mail-parse.
Same parsed Message shape, and a failure-signature primitive whose hashes match the TypeScript package byte-for-byte.

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Maintained in the MailKite monorepo; this is the public home for the Python port. The TypeScript package (mail-parse) is the reference implementation.

Why

• Cross-language SSOT — compute_signature() produces the same failure-signature hash as the TypeScript package for the same failure (conformance-tested against hashes captured from TS).
• Same Message shape — parse() returns the same structured fields, so payloads are consistent across your stack.
• Tolerant — malformed input never raises.

Install

pip install mailparse-mailkite

Quickstart

from mailparse import parse, compute_signature

msg = parse(raw_bytes)
msg.from_        # Address(address=..., name=...)
msg.subject
msg.text; msg.html
msg.attachments  # [Attachment(filename, mimeType, content: bytes, size, ...)]

# Deterministic, PII-free fingerprint of a parse failure — identical hash to the TS package.
sig = compute_signature({"scope": "part", "diagnosticCodes": ["UNKNOWN_CHARSET"],
                         "contentType": "text/plain"})
sig["hash"]

Status

The failure-signature primitive is fully ported and cross-language conformance-tested. parse() is built on the stdlib email package (the documented ContentManager precedent) — the buffered path. Porting the streaming splitter + middleware registry to Python is in progress; the TypeScript package is the reference.

Develop

python3 -m unittest discover -s tests

All MailKite libraries

Full list: https://mailkite.dev/docs/libraries.

Docs & links

• 📚 Documentation: https://mailkite.dev/docs
• 🟦 TypeScript reference: https://github.com/mailkite/mail-parse
• 🌐 Website: https://mailkite.dev

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