fixmail.py

#! /usr/bin/env python
#
# James Hannah <[email protected]> - 2010-01-25
#
# Opens a mailbox (mbox) file and runs through all the messages,
# splitting them into the real mailboxes. Should be useful when
# for some reason mail gets delivered into a shared mbox instead
# of the correct mboxes.

import mailbox
import os.path
boringrcpt = ['root','postmaster','[email protected]', '[email protected]']

print "Loading mbox...",
allmail = mailbox.mbox('allmail')
allmail.lock()
for msg in allmail:
 origto = msg['X-Original-To']
 if origto == "" or origto == None:
  #print "\t\tEmpty origto"
  pass
 elif origto in boringrcpt:
  #print "\t\tDisregarding message to %s" % origto
  pass
 else:
  mboxname = origto.replace("@", ".").strip()
  mboxpath = "/var/spool/mail/%s" % mboxname
  if(os.path.exists(mboxpath)):
    print "Found workable mailbox %s!" % mboxpath
    target = mailbox.mbox(mboxpath)
    target.lock()
    target.add(msg)
    print "Added message to %s" % mboxpath
    target.unlock()
    target.close()
  else:
    print "%s DOES NOT EXIST!" % mboxpath

allmail.unlock()