#!/usr/bin/env python

from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
import os

# This script creates two messages and pipes them each to procmail.
# It assumes procmail is configured to deliver mail to an MBOX-format mail
# spool.
# Upon reading that mail spool with /bin/mail, only the first message is
# visible; the second message appears to be a part of the first.
# This is because Message.as_string() does not include a trailing newline
# at the end of the last line of the generate message.

def main():
	msg1 = MIMEMultipart()
	msg1.attach(MIMEText('part #1'))
	msg1.attach(MIMEText('part #2')) 
	msg1['Subject'] = 'Test 1'

	print 'Message #1:', `msg1.as_string()`

	p = os.popen('procmail -f -', 'w')
	p.write(msg1.as_string())
	p.close()

	msg2 = MIMEText('test #2')
	msg2['Subject'] = 'Test 2'

	print 'Message #2:', `msg2.as_string()`

	p = os.popen('procmail -f -', 'w')
	p.write(msg2.as_string())
	p.close()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	main()