Email Attachment Parser

parsemail.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import sys
import email

raw = open(sys.argv[1]).read()
msg = email.message_from_string(raw)
print 'Parsing message...'
for part in msg.walk():
    c_disp = part.get('Content-Disposition')
    c_type = part.get_content_type()
    if c_disp is not None and c_disp.startswith('attachment'):
        c_enc  = part.get('Content-Transfer-Encoding')
        c_name = part.get_filename()
        try:
            c_content = part.get_payload().decode(c_enc)
        except:
            continue
        with open(c_name, 'wb') as fh:
            fh.write(c_content)
            print 'Attachment \'%s\' extracted.' % c_name