strip attachments

#!/usr/bin/python

def sanitise(msg):
    fn = msg.get_filename()
    if fn:
        msg.set_payload("Attachment stripped"
                "\nFilename: " + fn +
                "\nContent-Type: " + msg.get_content_type())
        for k, v in msg.get_params()[1:]:
            msg.del_param(k)
        msg.set_type('text/plain')
        del msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding']
        del msg['Content-Disposition']
    else:
        if msg.is_multipart():
            msg.set_payload([ sanitise(x) for x in msg.get_payload() ])
    return msg

import mailbox, email, sys

reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding('utf-8')

mbox = mailbox.mbox(sys.argv[1], factory=None, create=False)
for k, m in mbox.iteritems():
    print(sanitise(m).as_string())