I'm running a script that will both fetch emails (imaplib) and will send alerts back to my personal email using smtplib. I am running it on my raspberry pi 24/7 and so when I am not at home I want to check that the program is still running fine.
Here are the functions:
def get_alert():
global subject
user = alert_email
password = alert_email_password
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login(user, password)
mail.list()
mail.select('inbox')
result, data = mail.uid('search', None, 'UNSEEN')
i = len(data[0].split())
for x in range(i):
latest_email_uid = data[0].split()[x]
result, email_data = mail.uid('fetch', latest_email_uid, '(RFC822)')
raw_email = email_data[0][1]
raw_email_string = raw_email.decode('utf-8')
email_message = email.message_from_string(raw_email_string)
subject = str(email.header.make_header(email.header.decode_header(email_message['Subject'])))
print(subject)
return subject
mail.logout()
def send_alert(subj, msg):
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.login(alert_email, alert_email_password)
message = 'Subject: {}\n\n{}'.format(subj, msg)
server.sendmail(from_addr=alert_email, to_addrs=personal_email, msg=message)
server.quit()
Here's the loop:
while True:
get_alert()
if subject == 'check': # check that program is still running
send_alert(subj='still running', msg='still running')
if subject == ...
So what happens is that it will get the 'check' email perfectly, and prints it out only once as it should. Yet every loop sends me 'still running' every time it runs despite the email being marked as read and having no more unread emails. Shouldn't subject be None if there are no unread emails?? I've tried manually setting subject to none and marking all emails as read after returning subject. Not sure what is happening, if you can help I greatly appreciate. this has been driving me nuts all day :/
I want to create a program in python that receives every new unread email from one of my email accounts to another email account.
So far I got everything set up. Unfortunately I have really big issues with umlauts (ä,ö,ü). For some reason I con not make it to work properly.
Here is my code:
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import os, sys
import imaplib
import email
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
servername = 'SERVERNAME'
username='USERNAME'
password='PASSWORD'
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(servername)
(retcode, capabilities) = mail.login(username,password)
mail.list()
mail.select('inbox')
server_smtp = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('SMTP')
n=0
(retcode, messages) = mail.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')
if retcode == 'OK':
for num in messages[0].split() :
n=n+1
typ, data = mail.fetch(num,'(RFC822)')
for response_part in data:
if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
original = email.message_from_string(response_part[1])
print original['From']
typ, data = mail.store(num,'+FLAGS','\\Seen')
body = ""
if original.is_multipart():
for part in original.walk():
ctype = part.get_content_type()
cdispo = str(part.get('Content-Disposition'))
if ctype == 'text/plain' and 'attachment' not in cdispo:
body = part.get_payload(decode=True) # decode
break
else:
body = original.get_payload(decode=True)
body = body.encode('UTF-8')
body = str(body)
print(body)
body = "Betreff: " + str(original['Subject']) + "\n\n\n" + body.encode('UTF-8')
SUBJECT = original['From']
server_smtp.login(username, password)
msg = 'Subject: {}\n\n{}'.format(SUBJECT, body.decode('UTF-8'))
server_smtp.sendmail(username, 'TARGET', msg)
For example: if I want to send this message: "ÄäÖöÜü&ß" I will receive this: "������������&��
���"
Do you know what I am doing wrong?
I would really appreciate your help!
I have this code, and it seems to be able to log into the Gmail and view the emails (Unread email become marked as read). However, there is no downloading occurring, and I'm not sure why. Any ideas on how to make this happen?
import email
import getpass, imaplib
import os
import sys
detach_dir = '.'
if 'attachments' not in os.listdir(detach_dir):
os.mkdir('attachments')
userName = input('Enter your GMail username:')
passwd = getpass.getpass('Enter your password: ')
imapSession = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
typ, accountDetails = imapSession.login(userName, passwd)
if typ != 'OK':
print ('Not able to sign in!')
raise
imapSession.select('Inbox')
typ, data = imapSession.search(None, 'ALL')
if typ != 'OK':
print ('Error searching Inbox.')
raise
# Iterating over all emails
for msgId in data[0].split(): typ, messageParts = imapSession.fetch(msgId,
'(RFC822)')
if typ != 'OK':
print ('Error fetching mail.')
raise
emailBody = messageParts[0][1]
mail = email.message_from_string(emailBody)
for part in mail.walk():
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
# print part.as_string()
continue
if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
# print part.as_string()
continue
fileName = part.get_filename()
if bool(fileName):
filePath = os.path.join(detach_dir, 'attachments', fileName)
if not os.path.isfile(filePath) :
print (fileName)
fp = open(filePath, 'wb')
fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
fp.close()
imapSession.close()
imapSession.logout()
I was working with similar code and I had the same problem. In order to solve it, I changed
mail = email.message_from_string(emailBody)
to
mail = email.message_from_bytes(emailBody)
which worked for me.
Hope it helps!
Alright so I load the email in from gmail with imaplib and then when I'm trying to parse the email it does not separate anything out in a usable format. I suspect this is because somewhere in the process '<' or '>' are being added to the raw email.
Here is what the debugger is showing me after I have called the method:
As you can see it hasn't really parsed anything into a usable format.
Here is the code I'm using: (NOTE: the .replace('>', '') seems to have no effect on the end result.)
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('myEmail#gmail.com', 'password')
mail.list()
mail.select('inbox')
typ, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
ids = data[0]
id_list = ids.split()
# get the most recent email id
latest_email_id = int( id_list[-1] )
# iterate through 15 messages in descending order starting with latest_email_id
# the '-1' dictates reverse looping order
for i in range( latest_email_id -10, latest_email_id-15, -1 ):
typ, data = mail.fetch( str(i), '(RFC822)' )
for response_part in data:
if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
msg = str(response_part[1]).replace('<', '')
msg = msg.replace('>', '')
msg = email.message_from_string(msg)
#msg = feedparser.parse(response_part[1])
varSubject = msg['subject']
varFrom = msg['from']
python email.message_from_string() parse problems and Parsing email with Python both had very similar and identical problems to me (I think) and they solved it by altering their email, however I'm reading my email straight from Google's servers so I'm not sure exactly what to do to the email to fix it up since removing all '<' and '>' obviously won't work.
So, how do I fix the email that is read from imaplib so that it can be easily read with email.message_from_string()? (Or any other improvements/possible solutions as I'm not 100% certain the '<' and '>' are actually the problem, I'm only guessing based off of those other questions asked.)
Cheers
You shouldn't parse <, > and data between them - it is like parsing HTML, but much more complicated. There are existing solutions to do it.
Here is my code that can read mail with attachments, extract data that can be used for further use and process it to human and code readable format. As you can see, all tasks are being made by third-party modules.
from datetime import datetime
import imaplib
import email
import html2text
from os import path
class MailClient(object):
def __init__(self):
self.m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('your.server.com')
self.Login()
def Login(self):
result, data = self.m.login('login#domain.com', 'p#s$w0rd')
if result != 'OK':
raise Exception("Error connecting to mailbox: {}".format(data))
def ReadLatest(self, delete = True):
result, data = self.m.select("inbox")
if result != 'OK':
raise Exception("Error reading inbox: {}".format(data))
if data == ['0']:
return None
latest = data[0].split()[-1]
result, data = self.m.fetch(latest, "(RFC822)")
if result != 'OK':
raise Exception("Error reading email: {}".format(data))
if delete:
self.m.store(latest, '+FLAGS', '\\Deleted')
message = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
res = {
'From' : email.utils.parseaddr(message['From'])[1],
'From name' : email.utils.parseaddr(message['From'])[0],
'Time' : datetime.fromtimestamp(email.utils.mktime_tz(email.utils.parsedate_tz(message['Date']))),
'To' : message['To'],
'Subject' : email.Header.decode_header(message["Subject"])[0][0],
'Text' : '',
'File' : None
}
for part in message.walk():
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
continue
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'text':
# reading as HTML (not plain text)
_html = part.get_payload(decode = True)
res['Text'] = html2text.html2text(_html)
elif part.get_content_maintype() == 'application' and part.get_filename():
fname = path.join("your/folder", part.get_filename())
attachment = open(fname, 'wb')
attachment.write(part.get_payload(decode = True))
attachment.close()
if res['File']:
res['File'].append(fname)
else:
res['File'] = [fname]
return res
def __del__(self):
self.m.close()
I want to be able to move an email in GMail from the inbox to another folder using Python. I am using imaplib and can't figure out how to do it.
There is no explicit move command for IMAP. You will have to execute a COPY followed by a STORE (with suitable flag to indicate deletion) and finally expunge. The example given below worked for moving messages from one label to the other. You'll probably want to add more error checking though.
import imaplib, getpass, re
pattern_uid = re.compile(r'\d+ \(UID (?P<uid>\d+)\)')
def connect(email):
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
password = getpass.getpass("Enter your password: ")
imap.login(email, password)
return imap
def disconnect(imap):
imap.logout()
def parse_uid(data):
match = pattern_uid.match(data)
return match.group('uid')
if __name__ == '__main__':
imap = connect('<your mail id>')
imap.select(mailbox = '<source folder>', readonly = False)
resp, items = imap.search(None, 'All')
email_ids = items[0].split()
latest_email_id = email_ids[-1] # Assuming that you are moving the latest email.
resp, data = imap.fetch(latest_email_id, "(UID)")
msg_uid = parse_uid(data[0])
result = imap.uid('COPY', msg_uid, '<destination folder>')
if result[0] == 'OK':
mov, data = imap.uid('STORE', msg_uid , '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
imap.expunge()
disconnect(imap)
As for Gmail, based on its api working with labels, the only thing for you to do is adding dest label and deleting src label:
import imaplib
obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
obj.login('username', 'password')
obj.select(src_folder_name)
typ, data = obj.uid('STORE', msg_uid, '+X-GM-LABELS', desti_folder_name)
typ, data = obj.uid('STORE', msg_uid, '-X-GM-LABELS', src_folder_name)
I suppose one has a uid of the email which is going to be moved.
import imaplib
obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
obj.login('username', 'password')
obj.select(src_folder_name)
apply_lbl_msg = obj.uid('COPY', msg_uid, desti_folder_name)
if apply_lbl_msg[0] == 'OK':
mov, data = obj.uid('STORE', msg_uid , '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
obj.expunge()
None of the previous solutions worked for me. I was unable to delete a message from the selected folder, and unable to remove the label for the folder when the label was the selected folder. Here's what ended up working for me:
import email, getpass, imaplib, os, sys, re
user = "user#example.com"
pwd = "password" #getpass.getpass("Enter your password: ")
m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
m.login(user,pwd)
from_folder = "Notes"
to_folder = "food"
m.select(from_folder, readonly = False)
response, emailids = imap.search(None, 'All')
assert response == 'OK'
emailids = emailids[0].split()
errors = []
labeled = []
for emailid in emailids:
result = m.fetch(emailid, '(X-GM-MSGID)')
if result[0] != 'OK':
errors.append(emailid)
continue
gm_msgid = re.findall(r"X-GM-MSGID (\d+)", result[1][0])[0]
result = m.store(emailid, '+X-GM-LABELS', to_folder)
if result[0] != 'OK':
errors.append(emailid)
continue
labeled.append(gm_msgid)
m.close()
m.select(to_folder, readonly = False)
errors2 = []
for gm_msgid in labeled:
result = m.search(None, '(X-GM-MSGID "%s")' % gm_msgid)
if result[0] != 'OK':
errors2.append(gm_msgid)
continue
emailid = result[1][0]
result = m.store(emailid, '-X-GM-LABELS', from_folder)
if result[0] != 'OK':
errors2.append(gm_msgid)
continue
m.close()
m.logout()
if errors: print >>sys.stderr, len(errors), "failed to add label", to_folder
if errors2: print >>sys.stderr, len(errors2), "failed to remove label", from_folder
I know that this is a very old question, but any way. The proposed solution by Manoj Govindan probably works perfectly (I have not tested it but it looks like it. The problem that I encounter and I had to solve is how to copy/move more than one email!!!
So I came up with solution, maybe someone else in the future might have the same problem.
The steps are simple, I connect to my email (GMAIL) account choose folder to process (e.g. INBOX) fetch all uids, instead of email(s) list number. This is a crucial point to notice here. If we fetched the list number of emails and then we processed the list we would end up with a problem. When we move an email the process is simple (copy at the destination folder and delete email from each current location). The problem appears if you have a list of emails e.g. 4 emails inside the inbox and we process the 2nd email in inside the list then number 3 and 4 are different, they are not the emails that we thought that they would be, which will result into an error because list item number 4 it will not exist since the list moved one position down because 2 position was empty.
So the only possible solution to this problem was to use UIDs. Which are unique numbers for each email. So no matter how the email will change this number will be binded with the email.
So in the example below, I fetch the UIDs on the first step,check if folder is empty no point of processing the folder else iterate for all emails found in the folder. Next fetch each email Header. The headers will help us to fetch the Subject and compare the subject of the email with the one that we are searching. If the subject matches, then continue to copy and delete the email. Then you are done. Simple as that.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import email
import pprint
import imaplib
__author__ = 'author'
def initialization_process(user_name, user_password, folder):
imap4 = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com') # Connects over an SSL encrypted socket
imap4.login(user_name, user_password)
imap4.list() # List of "folders" aka labels in gmail
imap4.select(folder) # Default INBOX folder alternative select('FOLDER')
return imap4
def logout_process(imap4):
imap4.close()
imap4.logout()
return
def main(user_email, user_pass, scan_folder, subject_match, destination_folder):
try:
imap4 = initialization_process(user_email, user_pass, scan_folder)
result, items = imap4.uid('search', None, "ALL") # search and return uids
dictionary = {}
if items == ['']:
dictionary[scan_folder] = 'Is Empty'
else:
for uid in items[0].split(): # Each uid is a space separated string
dictionary[uid] = {'MESSAGE BODY': None, 'BOOKING': None, 'SUBJECT': None, 'RESULT': None}
result, header = imap4.uid('fetch', uid, '(UID BODY[HEADER])')
if result != 'OK':
raise Exception('Can not retrieve "Header" from EMAIL: {}'.format(uid))
subject = email.message_from_string(header[0][1])
subject = subject['Subject']
if subject is None:
dictionary[uid]['SUBJECT'] = '(no subject)'
else:
dictionary[uid]['SUBJECT'] = subject
if subject_match in dictionary[uid]['SUBJECT']:
result, body = imap4.uid('fetch', uid, '(UID BODY[TEXT])')
if result != 'OK':
raise Exception('Can not retrieve "Body" from EMAIL: {}'.format(uid))
dictionary[uid]['MESSAGE BODY'] = body[0][1]
list_body = dictionary[uid]['MESSAGE BODY'].splitlines()
result, copy = imap4.uid('COPY', uid, destination_folder)
if result == 'OK':
dictionary[uid]['RESULT'] = 'COPIED'
result, delete = imap4.uid('STORE', uid, '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
imap4.expunge()
if result == 'OK':
dictionary[uid]['RESULT'] = 'COPIED/DELETED'
elif result != 'OK':
dictionary[uid]['RESULT'] = 'ERROR'
continue
elif result != 'OK':
dictionary[uid]['RESULT'] = 'ERROR'
continue
else:
print "Do something with not matching emails"
# do something else instead of copy
dictionary = {scan_folder: dictionary}
except imaplib.IMAP4.error as e:
print("Error, {}".format(e))
except Exception as e:
print("Error, {}".format(e))
finally:
logout_process(imap4)
return dictionary
if __name__ == "__main__":
username = 'example.email#gmail.com'
password = 'examplePassword'
main_dictionary = main(username, password, 'INBOX', 'BOKNING', 'TMP_FOLDER')
pprint.pprint(main_dictionary)
exit(0)
Useful information regarding imaplib Python — imaplib IMAP example with Gmail and the imaplib documentation.
This is the solution to move multiple from one folder to another.
mail_server = 'imap.gamil.com'
account_id = 'yourimap#gmail.com'
password = 'testpasword'
TLS_port = '993'
# connection to imap
conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(mail_server,TLS_port)
try:
(retcode, capabilities) = conn.login(account_id, password)
# return HttpResponse("pass")
except:
# return HttpResponse("fail")
messages.error(request, 'Request Failed! Unable to connect to Mailbox. Please try again.')
return redirect('addIEmMailboxes')
conn.select('"INBOX"')
(retcode, messagess) = conn.uid('search', None, "ALL")
if retcode == 'OK':
for num in messagess[0].split():
typ, data = conn.uid('fetch', num,'(RFC822)')
msg = email.message_from_bytes((data[0][1]))
#MOVE MESSAGE TO ProcessedEmails FOLDER
result = conn.uid('COPY', num, 'ProcessedEmails')
if result[0] == 'OK':
mov, data = conn.uid('STORE', num , '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
conn.expunge()
conn.close()
return redirect('addIEmMailboxes')
Solution with Python 3, to move Zoho mails from Trash to Archive. (Zoho does not archive deleted messages, so if you want to preserve them forever, you need to move from Trash to an archival folder.)
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import imaplib, sys
obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.zoho.com', 993)
obj.login('account', 'password')
obj.select('Trash')
_, data = obj.uid('FETCH', '1:*' , '(RFC822.HEADER)')
if data[0] is None:
print("No messages in Trash")
sys.exit(0)
messages = [data[i][0].split()[2] for i in range(0, len(data), 2)]
for msg_uid in messages:
apply_lbl_msg = obj.uid('COPY', msg_uid, 'Archive')
if apply_lbl_msg[0] == 'OK':
mov, data = obj.uid('STORE', msg_uid , '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
obj.expunge()
print("Moved msg %s" % msg_uid)
else:
print("Copy of msg %s did not work" % msg_uid)
My external lib: https://github.com/ikvk/imap_tools
# MOVE all messages from INBOX to INBOX/folder2
from imap_tools import MailBox
with MailBox('imap.ya.ru').login('tst#ya.ru', 'pwd', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
mailbox.move(mailbox.fetch('ALL'), 'INBOX/folder2') # *implicit creation of uid list on fetch