Python email lib - How to remove attachment from existing message?
email, mime, python
Solution
`set_payload()` may help.
`set_payload(payload[, charset])`
Set the entire message object’s payload to payload. It is the client’s responsibility to ensure the payload invariants.
A quick interactive example:
>>> from email import mime,message
>>> m1 = message.Message()
>>> t1=email.MIMEText.MIMEText('t1\r\n')
>>> print t1.as_string()
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
t1
>>> m1.attach(t1)
>>> m1.is_multipart()
True
>>> m1.get_payload()
[<email.mime.text.MIMEText instance at 0x00F585A8>]
>>> t2=email.MIMEText.MIMEText('t2\r\n')
>>> m1.set_payload([t2])
>>> print m1.get_payload()[0].as_string()
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
t2
>>>
Problem
I have an email that I'm reading with the Python email lib that I need to modify the attachments of. The email Message class has the "attach" method, but does not have anything like "detach". How can I remove an attachment from a multipart message? If possible, I want to do this without recreating the message from scratch. Essentially I want to: - Load the email - Remove the mime attachments - Add a new attachment