I need to do an email automation. For this I need to read an email from Outlook and then send it after configuring some data.
The problem is that all the tutorials I've seen say to use the Outlook application installed on the computer. As I use Linux I can't do this. To read the email using Gmail, I did the following:
import datetime
from imap_tools import MailBox, AND
user = "myemail#gmail.com"
password = "anypassword"
#This password is an "App Password" that I need to configure within Gmail.
my_email = MailBox("imap.gmail.com").login(user, password)
today = datetime.date.today()
list_emails = my_email.fetch(AND(from_="", date=today, subject=""))
for email in list_emails:
print(email.text)
How can I adapt the code for Outlook?
PS: In Gmail it is possible to set an "App Password". I didn't get this in Outlook.
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I've been trying to work this one out for a while now but keep finding imperfect solutions - I think what I want to do is possible but maybe I'm not phrasing my Google search correctly.
I have a Python script that sends a user an email notification - in order to send said email I need to provide a password in the script to send the email. The code works perfectly but it requires that I pass the password into the script:
def send_email():
import smtplib
import ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
sender_email = "my-generic-email#gmail.com"
receiver_email = "recipient#gmail.com"
password = "my_password_here"
message = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
message["Subject"] = "subject_here"
message["From"] = sender_email
message["To"] = receiver_email
# Create the plain-text and HTML version of your message
text = f"""\
Plain text body here
"""
# Create secure connection with server and send email
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465, context=context) as server:
server.login(sender_email, password)
server.sendmail(
sender_email, receiver_email, message.as_string()
)
I don't want to store the password as plain text for obvious reasons. I've thought of environment variables but this wouldn't work as this is going to be deployed on GitHub for other people to use (or install as an EXE) so this would break the email functionality.
I've tried looking at PyCryptodome but anything I've found so far suggests encrypting the password with a key but then storing the key in the script to decrypt the password when you use it. This seems like a bad idea to me as surely any novice (like me!) would be able to easily decrypt this because the key is stored in the script.
Is anyone able to help push me in the right direction? I'm completely out of ideas as frankly I know hardly anything about password storing/security so not even sure what I should be Googling!
If others have to use your password to be able to use your script, it's impossible. If the computer can read it, then the user will also find a way to read it.
I recommend using a E-Mail service where the user can enter their own API key or just let them enter their own GMail credentials.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think there's no way to use your password in this case unless you write an API and send the E-Mail from your server. But don't forget that in this case, the user might be able to use your API as a way to send spam.
TL;DR: Let the users use their own passwords.
I'm trying to fetch inboxs/emails from my gmail by using python. However, the code im using doesnt reem to run? I'm following a tutorial and my output is different. I'm new to python.
import email
import imaplib
username = '****#gmail.com'
password = '****'
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
mail.login(username, password)
mail.select("inbox")
When I run it via visual studio, I get this error.
I turned on let secure apps access feature on my google account, turned on imap on my gmail settings. What am I doing wrong? I'm trying to fetch emails from gmail and view inboxes and such.
Any help?
Looks like the code is fine.
test
Can you try this? I added a print statement and trying to access the content.
import imaplib
username = '****#gmail.com'
password = '****'
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP)
mail.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
for i in mail.list()[1]:
l = i.decode().split(' "/" ')
print(l[0] + " = " + l[1]) #should print the mail content that you can use as needed
I am setting up a script to read incoming emails from an outlook.com account and I've tested a few approaches with imaplib and was unsuccessful. Yet when I tried with Exchangelib I was able to do this. I'm not entirely sure why Exchangelib works and imaplib doesn't. I feel like I might be breaking some best practices here as I don't know how Exchangelib is able to connect to the mailbox through some sort of trickery of network connections?
For reference the IMAP code that doesn't work (though it works when I attempt to connect to my personal gmail account)
from imapclient import IMAPClient
import mailparser
with IMAPClient('outlook.office365.com', ssl=True) as server:
server.login("username", "password")
server.select_folder('INBOX')
messages = server.search(['FROM', ])
# for each unseen email in the inbox
for uid, message_data in server.fetch(messages, 'RFC822').items():
email_message = mailparser.parse_from_string(message_data[b'RFC822'])
print("email ", email_message)
I get the below error
imapclient.exceptions.LoginError: b'LOGIN failed.'
When I use exchangelib it works succesfully. Reference code below:
from exchangelib import Credentials, Account
credentials = Credentials("username", "password")
account = Account(username, credentials=credentials, autodiscover=True)
for item in account.inbox.all().order_by('-datetime_received')[:100]:
print(item.subject, item.sender, item.datetime_received)
Is there any reason why I can't connect with imaplib/imapclient vs exchangelib? Perhaps some security related reason that I'm not aware of?
I think you might need to pass in the full email-ID when using imapclient/imaplib vs just the username when using exchangelib.
I am trying to send an email from a custom domain in Python. I have figured out how to send emails from other domains, like gmail.com, using smtplib [example code]. Now I want to figure out how to send an email from a custom domain like catsareonwheels.com.
I thought I would be able to use smtpd to send emails from a server, but that library appears only to serve as a proxy fora Mail Transfer Agent. From what I can tell, there are MTA's written in Pure Python [e.g. Slimta], but I have not been able to find any examples of snippets that actually demonstrate how to send an email from a custom domain with Python.
If anyone can help point me toward literature that might help me determine how best to achieve this goal, I'd be very grateful.
TO SEND AN EMAIL FROM A CUSTOM DOMAIN, YOU DO THE FOLLOWING:
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
import smtplib
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg["From"] = "<your_mail_account>"
msg["To"] = "<destiny_account>"
body_text = "HOLA MUNDO :)"
body_part = MIMEText(body_text, 'plain')
msg.attach(body_part)
with smtplib.SMTP(host="smtp.<CUSTOM_DOMAIN>.com", port=587) as smtp_obj: # ENVIAR DESDE UN DOMINIO PERSONALIZADO.
smtp_obj.ehlo()
smtp_obj.starttls()
smtp_obj.ehlo()
smtp_obj.login("<your_mail_account>", "<your_password>")
smtp_obj.sendmail(msg['From'], [msg['To'],], msg.as_string())
print("¡Datos enviados con éxito!")
That's all :) Hope you like it!
After trying all the SMTP server settings that I have found on other posts I have found the right settings browsing through domain cPanel:
Go to "List Email Accounts"
On the right sido of the account you want to use click on "Connect devices"
Check "Mail Client Manual Settings"
What do you exactly mean by "custom domain"?
If you have some hosting witch provides you an email service then you can use smtplib as well.
Lets say I bought a hosting and a domain use-smtplib.com. I've created an email account myname#use-smtplib.com in admin panel.
Then configuration should look somehow like this:
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL('mail.use-smtplib.com', '465') as smtp:
smtp.login('myname#use-smtplib.com', 'my_strong_password')
subject = "Message from python"
msg = "Hello from python"
smtp.sendmail('myname#use-smtplib.com', 'recipient#gmail.com', msg)
Exact configuration may be different depending on your email provider. Domains starting with mail.domain.com and smtp.domain.com are pretty common.
I'm using python 2.6.6 and have imported email.
I can read the emails fine, but how can I check the flag to see if the email has been seen?
I have
import email
msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
now I need
beenSeen = msg.flag('seen')
or what ever it should be