Total size of email in python

Asked Apr 15 '17 at 21:09

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I am using the imaplib of python to get emails from a server. These emails will be forwarded. Based on the total size of the individual email the attachments will be dropped or forwarded with the message. But how do I get the total size of a email.message?

I found this answer, but it does not apply as I do not get the email from a file: find the total size of an email message using the email package

This is how I get the email:

m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(self.imap_server, int(self.imap_port))
m.select("Inbox") 

resp, items = m.search(None, "UNSEEN")
items = items[0].split()

for emailid in items:
    resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)")
    mail = email.message_from_bytes(data[0][1])
    #TODO: get size of email

edited May 23 '17 at 12:25

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asked Apr 15 '17 at 21:09

MartinM

Do you tried with `len` to `email.message`? – julian salas Apr 15 '17 at 21:15
I tried that, len(mail) returns a constant number, in my case always 17. I assume thats the number of headers or something like that. – MartinM Apr 16 '17 at 09:34
Also tried sys.getsizeof(mail), which also only returns a constant number. – MartinM Apr 16 '17 at 09:40

Total size of email in python

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