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equaeghe

16 Oct 2017 02:26 AM

Checking whether list of messages with given msgids are in mailbox

Hi,

I have a set of emails-as-files on my hard drive that are mangled a bit (multiple emails per file). Most of these are in my FastMail mailbox, but some may not be. i would like to check which are and which aren't.

I know how to do this for each message manually: find msgid, search for it in FM interface. However, I have more than 500 such messages…

I can create a list of msgids for all the mails contained in these files.

Is there a way in which I can check all of these in an automated way? Using the interface? Use a third-party tool (open source)?

Erik

equaeghe

16 Oct 2017 04:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by equaeghe (Post 604217)

Is there a way in which I can check all of these in an automated way? Use a third-party tool (open source)?

Ok, I came up with a simple Python approach using the IMAPClient module:

Code:

for msgid in msgids:

    if c.search("HEADER Message-ID " + msgid) == []:

        print(msgid)

Here msgids is the list of, obviously, msgids and c is the client instance for the FastMail mailbox. In the end I only had to follow-up four msgids manually.

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