cardinal_pythonlib.email.mailboxpurge
Remove all binary attachments from email messages
This is a standard UNIX filter; it reads a message or mailbox from standard input, and outputs it again on standard output, with all binary attachments removed (with message/external-body).
Written by Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net>. Copy at will. Adapted from <https://code.activestate.com/recipes/576553/>, originally written by Romain Dartigues.
From https://gist.github.com/fbriere/e86584a807449e3128c0
Then rewritten a fair bit, Rudolf Cardinal, 9 Oct 2018
Original code copyright (C) 2009-2022 Rudolf Cardinal (rudolf@pobox.com).
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- cardinal_pythonlib.email.mailboxpurge.clean_message(message: Message, topmost: bool = False) Message[source]
Clean a message of all its binary parts.
This guts all binary attachments, and returns the message itself for convenience.