#+TITLE: eml-view-and-extract-attachments.py

Extract email content and attachments from EML files with auto-renaming.

* Usage

#+begin_src bash
# View mode — print metadata and body to stdout, extract attachments alongside EML
python3 docs/scripts/eml-view-and-extract-attachments.py inbox/message.eml

# Pipeline mode — extract, auto-rename, refile to output dir, clean up
python3 docs/scripts/eml-view-and-extract-attachments.py inbox/message.eml --output-dir assets/
#+end_src

* Naming Convention

Files are auto-renamed as =YYYY-MM-DD-HHMM-Sender-TYPE-Description.ext=:

- =2026-02-05-1136-Jonathan-EMAIL-Re-Fw-4319-Danneel-Street.eml=
- =2026-02-05-1136-Jonathan-EMAIL-Re-Fw-4319-Danneel-Street.txt=
- =2026-02-05-1136-Jonathan-ATTACH-Ltr-Carrollton.pdf=

Date and sender are parsed from email headers. Falls back to "unknown" for missing values.

* Dependencies

- Python 3 (stdlib only for core functionality)
- =html2text= (optional — used for HTML-only emails, falls back to tag stripping)

* Pipeline Mode Behavior

1. Creates a temp directory alongside the source EML
2. Copies and renames the EML, writes a =.txt= of the body, extracts attachments
3. Checks for filename collisions in the output directory
4. Moves all files to the output directory
5. Cleans up the temp directory
6. Prints a summary of created files

Source EML is never modified or moved.

* Tests

#+begin_src bash
python3 -m pytest docs/scripts/tests/ -v
#+end_src

48 tests: unit tests for parsing, filename generation, and attachment saving; integration tests for both pipeline and stdout modes. Requires =pytest=.