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Using email python library to get attachment name doesn't work

here's what my message details looks like:

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I used the following python code to get attached file name from this mail:

import email
mail = email.message_from_string(bytes.decode(email_body))
if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
    continue
for part in mail.walk():
    if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
        continue
    if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
        continue
    fileName1 = part.get_filename()
    print(fileName1)

It prints None instead of the attachment name. Please Help!

Solution

  • If the only thing you want to do is extract the filename, you can use

    for part in mail.walk():
     if part.get_content_disposition() == 'attachment':
          fileName1 = part.get_filename()

    This way you are not messing with other parts of the message, only with the attachment(s).