#!/usr/local/bin/python
#
# Test script to fiddle with Python's email message (rfc822, mime, etc.)
# parsing and MH mailbox support.
#

import sys
import email

# boilerplate version checking
if sys.hexversion < 0x020202F0:         # require version 2.1 or greater
    raise "python version 2.2.2 or higher required"

# Takes one argument - that argument is the file path of the message we wish
# to parse.
#
if len(sys.argv) < 2 or len(sys.argv) > 3:
    print "Error expected one argument: Path to message to parse"
    sys.exit(1)
    pass

msg_file = sys.argv[1]

file = file(msg_file, 'r')
msg = email.Parser.parse(fp = file, headersonly = True)
#msg = email.message_from_file(fp = file)

if 'message-id' in msg:
    print 'Message-ID: ', msg['message-id']
    pass