a python script which will parse an email message

[chuck amadi]

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chuck> Hi Skip used your snippet - the above returns a

chuck> Returned mail: see transcript for details
chuck> Returned mail: see transcript for details

Assuming those are the subjects of the messages in /var/spool/mail/chucka,
that looks fine.

chuck> The second snippet - returns
chuck> <open file '/tmp/subjects', mode 'w' at 0x3fcf0ea0> Returned mail: see
chuck> transcript for details
chuck> <open file '/tmp/subjects', mode 'w' at 0x3fcf0ea0> Returned mail: see
chuck> transcript for details
chuck> When i less /tmp/subjects theres no data.

What version of Python are you using? Maybe it's so old it doesn't support
the

print >> openfile, ...

construct, though if not, I'd expect a SyntaxError. Did you forget the
">>"?

Skip