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https://github.com/namecheap/fast_mail_parser

Very fast Python library for .eml files parsing
https://github.com/namecheap/fast_mail_parser

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Very fast Python library for .eml files parsing

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# fast_mail_parser

![Test](https://github.com/namecheap/fast_mail_parser/workflows/Test/badge.svg)
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fast_mail_parser is a Python library for .eml files parsing.
The main benefit is a performance: the library is much faster than python implementations.

Based on [mailparse](https://github.com/staktrace/mailparse) library using [pyo3](https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3).

## Benchmark

```
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- benchmark: 2 tests -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name (time in ms) Min Max Mean StdDev Median IQR Outliers OPS Rounds Iterations
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
test__fast_mail_parser___parse_message 1.8136 (1.0) 1.8938 (1.0) 1.8426 (1.0) 0.0176 (1.0) 1.8465 (1.0) 0.0277 (1.0) 180;0 542.7141 (1.0) 450 1
test__mail_parser___parse_message 14.5583 (8.03) 15.8571 (8.37) 15.0264 (8.16) 0.2368 (13.49) 14.9702 (8.11) 0.2887 (10.42) 5;1 66.5495 (0.12) 32 1
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Legend:
Outliers: 1 Standard Deviation from Mean; 1.5 IQR (InterQuartile Range) from 1st Quartile and 3rd Quartile.
OPS: Operations Per Second, computed as 1 / Mean
```

## Installation

Use the package manager [pip](https://pypi.org/project/fast_mail_parser/) to install fast_mail_parser.

```bash
pip install fast-mail-parser
```

## Usage

```python
import sys
from fast_mail_parser import parse_email, ParseError

with open('message.eml', 'r') as f:
message_payload = f.read()

try:
email = parse_email(message_payload)
except ParseError as e:
print("Failed to parse email: ", e)
sys.exit(1)

print(email.subject)
print(email.date)
print(email.text_plain)
print(email.text_html)
print(email.headers)

for attachment in email.attachments:
print(attachment.mimetype)
print(attachment.content)
print(attachment.filename)
```

## Contributing

Pull requests are welcome. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Please make sure to update tests as appropriate.