mail_stripper

#!env python3
#
# This is a script to strip email attachments from all the files found in the
# arguments.

import email
import sys

REPLACE_TEXT = '''The attachment "{filename}" ({type}, {size:.0f} KiB) has been
deleted by `mail_stripper`. To recover it, on the next blood moon, place the
corpse of a virgin unicorn where the rainbows meet the Earth.  '''


def strip_attachments(e):
    for i in e.get_payload():
        if i.get_content_type() != 'text/plain':
            i.set_payload(REPLACE_TEXT.format(type=i.get_content_type(),
                                              size=len(bytes(i)) / 1024 ,
                                              filename=i.get_filename()))
            del i['Content-Disposition']
            i.set_type('text/plain')

    email.encoders.encode_7or8bit(e)
    return e.as_bytes()


def main():
    for message in args:
        with open(message, mode='rb') as f:
            e = email.message_from_binary_file(f)

        if e.is_multipart():
            e = strip_attachments(e)

            with open(message, mode='w+b') as f:
                f.write(e)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    args = sys.argv[1:]
    if len(args) < 1:
        sys.exit('USAGE: mail_stripper <msg_file> [msg_files]')
    else:
        main()