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Hi (great tool - thanks for providing it!!!)

I tried with a smaller mailbox first: no issues. Second test was with a mailbox with >65656 messages in INBOX.
macOS Intel - recent version - Py 3.10 (brew)
I see this result:

(.env) tschloss@Mac-mini imap-attachment-extractor % imap_aex --password -d "2022-08-07"
Password:
[Dry-run] Create extract dir /Users/tschloss/Programming/imap-attachment-extractor/INBOX.
Selected folder 'INBOX' (64556 mails).
45 messages corresponding to search.
1 messages with attachments.

Parsing mail: 'cronjob p487261 Update mvonline' [2022-08-07 05:40:06]
  Attachment 'p487261_Update mvonline.log' size (129.0B) is smaller than defined threshold (100.0KB), leave intact.
  Nothing extracted.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/tschloss/Programming/imap-attachment-extractor/.env/bin/imap_aex", line 33, in <module>
    sys.exit(load_entry_point('imap-attachment-extractor', 'console_scripts', 'imap_aex')())
  File "/Users/tschloss/Programming/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 860, in cli
    main(options, defaults)
  File "/Users/tschloss/Programming/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 852, in main
    imap.extract(**extract_kwargs)
  File "/Users/tschloss/Programming/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 422, in extract
    mail = message_from_bytes(fetch[1])  # type: EmailMessage
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.10.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/email/__init__.py", line 46, in message_from_bytes
    return BytesParser(*args, **kws).parsebytes(s)
  File "/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/3.10.6_1/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.10/lib/python3.10/email/parser.py", line 122, in parsebytes
    text = text.decode('ASCII', errors='surrogateescape')
AttributeError: 'int' object has no attribute 'decode'

Any ideas? Something wrong on my side?

Thank you
Thomas

Extracted 3 attachments, replacing email.
Append message on IMAP server.
Delete original message.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/pengu/aurore/imap-attachment-extractor/.env/bin/imap_aex", line 11, in
load_entry_point('imap-attachment-extractor', 'console_scripts', 'imap_aex')()
File "/home/pengu/aurore/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 824, in cli
main(options, defaults)
File "/home/pengu/aurore/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 816, in main
imap.extract(**extract_kwargs)
File "/home/pengu/aurore/imap-attachment-extractor/imap_aex.py", line 493, in extract
attachment_content = part.get_payload().encode("utf-8")
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'encode'

Hi, I get this error:

"Selected folder 'INBOX' (10 mails).
Warning: Could not search in INBOX"

What went wrong?

Thanks in advance.

cu
F. :-)

Hi, I have a second issue:

After altering a message with the tool, Apple Mail (macOS) shows the message with the current time, not the original timestamp.
Same problem with the webmail frontend of the provider Strato.

Mailmate does not show this wrong date.

When inspecting the source of the mail in the webmail frontend I could NOT find any time field which is altered. So I am not sure if somebody stores metadata besides the source text of a message?

I do not have this behavior when I remove attachments with Mailmate or Apple Mail. Not sure if these applications have another mechanism than "delete & append"?

Any ideas?

Thomas