Description:

tnefparse 1.4.0

tnefparse - TNEF decoding and attachment extraction




This is a pure-python library for decoding Microsoft’s Transport Neutral Encapsulation Format (TNEF), for Python
versions 3.6+ and PyPy3. The last version to support Python2 was 1.3.1. For more information on TNEF, see for example
wikipedia. The full TNEF specification
is also available as a PDF download.
A tnefparse command-line utility is provided for listing contents of TNEF files, extracting attachments
found inside them and so on:
usage: tnefparse [-h] [-o] [-a] [-p PATH] [-b] [-hb]
[-l LEVEL] [-c]
file [file ...]

Extract TNEF file contents. Show this help message if no arguments are given.

positional arguments:
file space-separated list of paths to the TNEF files

optional arguments:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
-o, --overview show (possibly long) overview of TNEF file contents
-a, --attachments extract attachments, by default to current dir
-z, --zip extract attachments into a single zip file, by default to current dir
-p PATH, --path PATH optional explicit path to extract attachments to
-b, --body extract the body to stdout
-hb, --htmlbody extract the HTML body to stdout
-rb, --rtfbody extract the RTF body to stdout
-l LEVEL, --log LEVEL set log level to DEBUG, INFO, WARN or ERROR
-c, --checksum calculate checksums (off by default)
-d, --dump extract a json dump of the tnef contents
The library can also be used as a basis for applications that need to parse TNEF. To parse a TNEF attachment, run eg. :
>>> from tnefparse import TNEF
>>> with open("tests/examples/one-file.tnef", "rb") as tneffile:
... tnefobj = TNEF(tneffile.read())

The parsed attachment contents are then available as TNEF object attributes:

signature - TNEF file signature
key - generated by TNEF enabled transports before using the TNEF implementation to generate a TNEF stream
codepage - a Windows code page string
objects - a collection of TNEFObject instances
attachments - a collection of TNEFAttachment instances
mapiprops - a collection of MAPI properties represented by TNEFMAPI_Attribute instances
body - message body (may contain both HTML and RTF)
htmlbody - a string containing just the HTML message body
rtfbody - just the RTF body

Some of the above properties may be empty, depending on what’s contained in the attachment that was parsed.

Tests
To run the test suite, all you need is tox. tox will run all tests on all supported Python versions.
If you want to run the tests only for e.g. Python 3.8, just enter tox -e py38.
You also can run a subset of tests in a specific environment by invoking e.g. tox -e py38 – -k test_cmdline.
With tox -e coverage you can generate a coverage report.
The output will be shown in the terminal and a HTML coverage report will be generated in the htmlcov directory.


Contributing
Issues and pull requests welcome. Please however always provide an example TNEF file that can be used to demonstrate the bug or desired behavior, if at all possible.
Note: If you have understanding of TNEF and/or MIME internals or just need this package and want to help with maintaining it, I am open to giving you commit rights. Just let me know.



tnefparse 1.4.0 (2021-01-24)

drop Python 2 support
drop Python 3.5 support (jugmac00)
add Python 3.9 support (jugmac00)
command-line support for zipped export of attachments (Beercow)
introduce using type annotations (jugmac00)
remove deprecated parseFile & raw_mapi functions
fix str representation for TNEF class (jugmac00)
prefer getattr over eval (eumiro)
fix test_zip deprecation warning for bytes (1nF0rmed)
correctly handle attachments of embedded objects (jrideout)
add expirimental support for parsing embedded message objects (jrideout)
zipped output now uses long filename when possible (jrideout)
run GitHub Actions CI for pull requests and once a week (eumiro)
use pathlib instead of os.path (eumiro)
change logger name for mapi to the package name (jrideout)
add unit tests for mapi attribute parsing (jrideout)
do not use Travis CI any more (jugmac00)



tnefparse 1.3.1 (2020-09-30)

heuristics to decode binary body and filenames when possible (jrideout)
JSON export for TNEF contents tnefparse (jrideout)
add support for Python 3.8 (jugmac00)
modernize package and test setup (jugmac00)
apply Flake8 on the code and enforce rules on CI (jugmac00)



tnefparse 1.3.0 (2018-12-01)

drop Python 2.6 & 3.3 support
Python 2/3 compatibility fixes
more tests & example files (jrideout)
overall improved testing & start tracking coverage
lots of parsing improvements (jrideout)
turn some unnecessary warnings into debug messages
add tnefparse -p | –path option for setting attachment extraction path
support more MAPI (PidTag) properties (jrideout)
support RTF body extraction (jrideout)
support extracting top level object attributes in msgprops (jrideout)
util.raw_mapi & tnefparse.parseFile functions will be deprecated after 1.3



tnefparse 1.2.3, 2018-11-14

misc. fixes



tnefparse 1.2.2, 2017

have TNEF init raise ValueError on invalid TNEF signature, rather than calling sys.exit()
parseFile convenience function should not expect a self parameter, removed
other misc. fixes



tnefparse 1.2.1, 2013

Python 3 compatibility; tests pass on Python 2.6/2.7/3.2/3.3
add package to travis ci
add tox.ini for testing using https://testrun.org/tox



tnefparse 1.2, 2013

performance improvements & bug fixes (Dave Baggett)
added to_zip function for converting TNEF attachments into ZIPped ones (Dave Baggett)
tnefparse is now used in the inky email client from Arcode



tnefparse 1.1.1, 08/2012 (unreleased)

fixed entry point bug that caused ‘tnefparse’ cmd-line invocation to fail



tnefparse 1.1, 03/2012

Repackaged and renamed the library
Code moved to github
Use the stdlib logging module
Further bug fixes and enhancements to pure-python code
Add a command-line script
Drop the unix tnef command-line tool wrapper



pytnef 0.2.1-Novell, circa 2010

Bug fixes/enhancements to pure-python code (Tom Doman)



pytnef 0.2, circa 2005

Added a wrapper for the unix tnef command-line tool (Petri Savolainen)
Pure-python code not very useful yet



pytnef 0.1 - circa 2005

First version (pure-python) created as a conversion of a Ruby TNEF decoder
by Trevor Scheroeder (Petri Savolainen)

License

For personal and professional use. You cannot resell or redistribute these repositories in their original state.

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