LookupError: unknown encoding: utf-8 euao6y69zh2w

[wesinator]

Email: imbox_lookuperror_unknown_encoding.eml.txt

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/parser.py", line 128, in decode_content
    return content.decode(charset, 'ignore')
LookupError: unknown encoding: utf-8  euao6y69zh2w

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    for uid, msg in unread_junk:
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/messages.py", line 39, in _fetch_email_list
    yield uid, self._fetch_email(uid)
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/messages.py", line 28, in _fetch_email
    parser_policy=self.parser_policy)
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/parser.py", line 141, in fetch_email_by_uid
    email_object = parse_email(raw_email, policy=parser_policy)
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/parser.py", line 187, in parse_email
    content = decode_content(part)
  File "/home/ubuntu/.local/lib/python3.6/site-packages/imbox/parser.py", line 130, in decode_content
    return content.decode(charset.replace("-", ""), 'ignore')
LookupError: unknown encoding: utf8  euao6y69zh2w

[py-radicz]

yea, I have got same exception, and its sad that the raised Exception breaks the generator, so it cannot be properly handled.

What about just returning raw msg in such cases, so generator can be consumed to exhaustion

[py-radicz]

or maybe this also fixes broader range of cases

def decode_content(message):
   content = message.get_payload(decode=True)
   charset = message.get_content_charset('utf-8')
   try:
       return content.decode(charset, 'ignore')
   except LookupError:
       import chardet
       encoding = chardet.detect(content).get('encoding')
       if encoding:
           return content.decode(encoding, 'ignore')
        return content
   except AttributeError:
       return content

[martinrusev]

Related: https://github.com/martinrusev/imbox/issues/177 @py-radicz Can you maybe submit a PR request and I will merge it into master. My only issue with the code above is to move the import chardet bit to the top of the file

[py-radicz]

thats great idea to practice the PR since I have never done that. Will do.

[taewookim]

Getting the same error on "windows-874" encoding w/latest pip install of this package Any workaround, @martinrusev ?

I tried @py-radicz 's solution.. no luck either