E-Mail Parsing

[Merrigan]

Hi There,

I am writing a script to administer my E-Mail Server. The One thing
I'm currently struggling with is kind of Parsing the E-Mail adress
that I supply to the script.

I need to get the username (The part BEFORE the @ sign) out of the
address so that I can use it elsewhere. The problem I have with this
is that both the domain, and the username are variable lenghts and
that I have no idea how to split the two parts.

Is there any way that I can do this?

Thank ye very much.

-- Merrigan

 

[Matt Nordhoff]

I am writing a script to administer my E-Mail Server. The One thing
I'm currently struggling with is kind of Parsing the E-Mail adress
that I supply to the script.

I need to get the username (The part BEFORE the @ sign) out of the
address so that I can use it elsewhere. The problem I have with this
is that both the domain, and the username are variable lenghts and
that I have no idea how to split the two parts.

Is there any way that I can do this?

Thank ye very much.

['user', 'example.com']

If it's formatted like a To header ("User <[email protected]>"), use
email.Utils.parseaddr() to get the address out of it.\

The email modules might help you a lot:

<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html>
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[Merrigan]

I am writing a script to administer my E-Mail Server. The One thing
I'm currently struggling with is kind of Parsing the E-Mail adress
that I supply to the script.

I need to get the username (The part BEFORE the @ sign) out of the
address so that I can use it elsewhere. The problem I have with this
is that both the domain, and the username are variable lenghts and
that I have no idea how to split the two parts.

Is there any way that I can do this?

Thank ye very much.

['user', 'example.com']

If it's formatted like a To header ("User <[email protected]>"), use
email.Utils.parseaddr() to get the address out of it.\

The email modules might help you a lot:

<http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html>
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Hi Matt,

Thank you very much for the help. It was exactly what I was looking
for, and made my script much safer and easier to use.

Blessings!

-- Merrigan

 

[Matt Nordhoff]

Hi Matt,

Thank you very much for the help. It was exactly what I was looking
for, and made my script much safer and easier to use.

Blessings!

-- Merrigan

You're welcome.
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