Chapter 14. xMail: E-mail as XML
E-mail is a good example of a structured text format that can usefully be converted to XML for processing, archiving, and searching. In this chapter, we develop xMail–a Python application to convert e-mail to XML.
It is an unfortunate fact of life that e-mail systems differ in the way they store e-mail. Some store it in proprietary binary formats. The two e-mail notations we deal with in this chapter (Unix mbox and Eudora) are, thankfully, text based. On Linux, e-mail messages are stored so that each message begins with From:. If that sequence of characters happens to occur within the body of a message, it is escaped by being prefixed with a > character. The Eudora e-mail client begins each message with a sentinel ...
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