Re: Printing UTF-8 mail to terminal

Cameron Simpson <cs@cskk.id.au> writes:

On 01Nov2024 10:10, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:

as expected.  The non-UTF-8 text occurs when I do
>
 mail = EmailMessage()
 mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")
 ...
>
 if args.verbose:
     print(mail)
>
which is presumably also correct.
>
The question is: What conversion is necessary in order to print the
EmailMessage object to the terminal, such that the quoted-printable
parts are turned (back) into UTF-8?

>
Do you still have access to `body` ? That would be the original
message text? Otherwise maybe:
>
    print(mail.get_content())
>
The objective is to obtain the message body Unicode text (i.e. a
regular Python string with the original text, unencoded). And to print
that.

With the following:

######################################################################

import email.message

m = email.message.EmailMessage()

m['Subject'] = 'Übung'

m.set_content('Dies ist eine Übung')
print('== cte: default == \n')
print(m)

print('-- full mail ---')
print(m)
print('-- just content--')
print(m.get_content())

m.set_content('Dies ist eine Übung', cte='quoted-printable')
print('== cte: quoted-printable ==\n')
print('-- full mail --')
print(m)
print('-- just content --')
print(m.get_content())

######################################################################

I get the following output:

######################################################################

== cte: default ==

Subject: Übung
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
MIME-Version: 1.0

RGllcyBpc3QgZWluZSDDnGJ1bmcK

-- full mail ---
Subject: Übung
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
MIME-Version: 1.0

RGllcyBpc3QgZWluZSDDnGJ1bmcK

-- just content--
Dies ist eine Übung

== cte: quoted-printable ==

-- full mail --
Subject: Übung
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Dies ist eine =C3=9Cbung

-- just content --
Dies ist eine Übung

######################################################################

So in both cases the subject is fine, but it is unclear to me how to
print the body.  Or rather, I know how to print the body OK, but I don't
know how to print the headers separately - there seems to be nothing
like 'get_headers()'.  I can use 'get('Subject) etc. and reconstruct the
headers, but that seems a little clunky. 

Cheers,

Loris

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