Question

I am having difficulty determining if the body of a text email message is base64 encoded. if it is then use this line of code; making use of jython 2.2.1

dirty=base64.decodebytes(dirty) 

else continue as normal.

This is the code I have atm. What line of code will allow me to extract this from the email:

‘Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64’

import email, email.Message import base64  def _get_email_body(self):     try:         parts=self._email.get_payload()         check=parts[0].get_content_type()         if check=='text/plain':             part=parts[0].get_payload()             enc = part[0]['Content-Transfer-Encoding']             if enc == 'base64':                 dirty=base64.decodebytes(dirty)         elif check=='multipart/alternative':             part=parts[0].get_payload()             enc = part[0]['Content-Transfer-Encoding']             if part[0].get_content_type()=='text/plain':                 dirty=part[0].get_payload()                 if enc == 'base64':                     dirty=base64.decodebytes(dirty)             else:                 return 'cannot obtain the body of the email'         else:             return 'cannot obtain the body of the email'         return dirty     except:         raise 

OKAY this code works now! thanks all

Answer 1

Try:

enc = msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] 

It’s a header so you won’t be able to get it looking at the body. You should be able to get at the same place you find out the Subject.