Re: How to manage accented characters in mail header?

On 2025-01-04 19:07:57 +0000, Chris Green via Python-list wrote:

Stefan Ram <ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de> wrote:

Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote or quoted:

From: =?utf-8?B?U8OpYmFzdGllbiBDcmlnbm9u?= <sebastien.crignon@amvs.fr>

 

Is there a simple[r] way to extract just the 'real' address between
the <>, that's all I actually need.  I think it has the be the last
chunk of the From: doesn't it?

No,
    From: <sebastien.crignon@amvs.fr> (Sébastien Crignon)
would also be permissible (properly encoded, of course), and even
    From: < sebastien (Sébastien) . crignon (Crignon) @ amvs . fr >
(although I think the latter is deprecated).

And also, there can be more than one address in a From header.

To properly extract email addresses from a header, use
email.utils.getaddresses(). You don't have to decode the header first.
The MIME-encoding is supposed to not interfere with parsing headers for
machine-readable information like addresses or message ids.

        hp

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