#Parse eml files

Sometimes I get forwarded emails as attachments. These .eml files are generally rather annoying to deal with - usually I just want to get the text of the email!

emlparse solves this problem. For example:

$ ./emlparse email.eml
 multipart/related
 0 multipart/alternative
  0.0 text/plain
  0.1 text/html
 1 image/png (image001.png)
 2 image/png (image002.png)
 3 image/png (image003.png)

This is the structure of the email message. To get the text/plain part:

$ ./emlparse -x 0.0 email.eml

Maybe we would like to view the HTML part:

$ ./emlparse -x 0.1 email.eml | w3m -T text/html

Or maybe check what the attached images are:

$ ./emlparse email.eml -x 2 | feh -

#How it works

The code is just a very simple wrapper around the python3 email module.