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#+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=.
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