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mail_intake.models.message

Message domain models for Mail Intake.

This module defines the canonical, provider-agnostic representation of an individual email message as used internally by the Mail Intake ingestion pipeline.

Models in this module are safe to persist and must not contain any provider-specific fields or semantics.

MailIntakeMessage dataclass

MailIntakeMessage(message_id: str, thread_id: str, timestamp: datetime, from_email: str, from_name: Optional[str], subject: str, body_text: str, snippet: str, raw_headers: Dict[str, str])

Canonical internal representation of a single email message.

This model represents a fully parsed and normalized email message. It is intentionally provider-agnostic and suitable for persistence, indexing, and downstream processing.

No provider-specific identifiers, payloads, or API semantics should appear in this model.

body_text instance-attribute

body_text: str

Extracted plain-text body content of the message.

from_email instance-attribute

from_email: str

Sender email address.

from_name instance-attribute

from_name: Optional[str]

Optional human-readable sender name.

message_id instance-attribute

message_id: str

Provider-specific message identifier.

raw_headers instance-attribute

raw_headers: Dict[str, str]

Normalized mapping of message headers (header name → value).

snippet instance-attribute

snippet: str

Short provider-supplied preview snippet of the message.

subject instance-attribute

subject: str

Raw subject line of the message.

thread_id instance-attribute

thread_id: str

Provider-specific thread identifier to which this message belongs.

timestamp instance-attribute

timestamp: datetime

Message timestamp as a timezone-naive UTC datetime.