Can someone help me customize an existing code sample?
I can see from the following article how to connect to gmail and download content, but I can\'t figure out how to
import datetime as dt
from imap_tools import MailBox, Q
date = dt.date.today() - dt.timedelta(days=5)
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'password', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
for msg in mailbox.fetch(Q(from_='Alerts@foobank.com', date_gte=date)):
sent_time = msg.date
body = msg.text or msg.html
for att in msg.attachments:
att.filename # str: 'cat.jpg'
att.content_type # str: 'image/jpeg'
att.payload # bytes: b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\'
*Note that there is no imap search criteria "with attachments"
https://github.com/ikvk/imap_tools
I suggest using IMAPClient as it papers over many of the more esoteric aspects of IMAP.
The following snippet will pull messages based on your criteria, parse the message strings to email.message.Message instances and print the Date
and From
headers.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import email
from imapclient import IMAPClient
HOST = 'imap.gmail.com'
USERNAME = 'username'
PASSWORD = 'password'
ssl = True
today = datetime.today()
cutoff = today - timedelta(days=5)
## Connect, login and select the INBOX
server = IMAPClient(HOST, use_uid=True, ssl=ssl)
server.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
select_info = server.select_folder('INBOX')
## Search for relevant messages
## see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.5
messages = server.search(
['FROM "Alerts@foobank.com"', 'SINCE %s' % cutoff.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')])
response = server.fetch(messages, ['RFC822'])
for msgid, data in response.iteritems():
msg_string = data['RFC822']
msg = email.message_from_string(msg_string)
print 'ID %d: From: %s Date: %s' % (msgid, msg['From'], msg['date'])
import imaplib
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com',993)
obj.login('username','password')
obj.select()
today = datetime.today()
cutoff = today - timedelta(days=5)
dt = cutoff.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
typ, data = obj.search(None, '(SINCE %s) (FROM "Alerts@foobank.com")'%(dt,))
print data