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python IMAP content of email contains a string

I am able to log in a gmail account with python IMAP
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
imap.login(myDict["emailUsername"], myDict["emailPassword"])
imap.select(mailbox='inbox', readonly=False)
resp, items = imap.search(None, 'All')
email_ids = items[0].split()
latest_email_id = email_ids[-1]
resp, data = imap.fetch(latest_email_id, "(UID)")
print ("resp= ", resp, " data=", data)
#msg_uid = parse_uid(data[0])
match = pattern_uid.match(data[0].decode("utf-8"))
#print ("match= ", match)
msg_uid = match.group('uid')
I need to make sure that the UID for the last email I have contains a certain string (XYZ). I am NOT looking for header subject but the content of email. How can I do that ?

There's a couple ways you could go:
Fetch the message and walk through the text body parts looking for your string -- example at Finding links in an emails body with Python
Get the server to do the search by supplying 'latest_email_id' and your search criteria back to the server in a UID SEARCH command. For Gmail, you can even use the X-GM-RAW attribute to use the same syntax support by the GMail web interface. See https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap/imap-extensions for details of that.

Receive mail from ERP software, change subject and forward

im complete new to this so sorry if this is a stupid question.
Im already searching the whole day for a solution of our problem.
Our Problem: We create an order for our supplier using our ERP software. The supplier want a specific subject in this email to get the mail picked up by there order receive system. We can't set the subject in out ERP software.
Workaround: ERP is sending the mail to an internal address and then we need to change the subject and forward it to the supplier.
We want to do this automatically. is this possible?
I saw a few thing about Python to do this, but not the complete solution. So i know its maybe very nooby, but who can and want to help me.
We are using Novell mail server. (that's also complete new for me :-( )
Update: i've created some code, but its not the best. :)
import smtplib, imaplib, email, re
#mail read, change and forward
imap_host = "SERVERNAME"
client = imaplib.IMAP4('SERVERNAME')
client.login('USERNAME', 'PWD')
client.select('INBOX') #, readonly=True
msgid = 1
status, data = client.fetch(msgid, "(RFC822)")
email_data = data[0][1]
client.close()
client.logout()
message = email.message_from_string(email_data)
message.replace_header("Subject", "test")
message.replace_header("From", 'test#test.com')
message.replace_header("To", 'EXTERN EMAILADRES')
smtp = smtplib.SMTP('SMTP SERVER')
smtp.starttls()
smtp.login('USERNAME', 'PWD')
from_addr = "AFZENDADRES"
to_addr = "EXTERN EMAILADRES"
smtp.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, message.as_string())
#move mail to folder
client = imaplib.IMAP4('SERVERNAME')
client.login('USERNAME', 'PWD')
client.select('INBOX', readonly=False)
pattern_uid = re.compile('\d+ \(UID (?P<uid>\d+)\)')
def parse_uid(data):
match = pattern_uid.match(data)
return match.group('uid')
resp, items = client.search(None, 'All')
email_ids = items[0].split()
latest_email_id = email_ids[0]
resp, data = client.fetch(latest_email_id, "(UID)")
msg_uid = parse_uid(data[0])
result = client.uid('COPY', msg_uid, 'INBOX/Afgehandeld')
if result[0] == 'OK':
mov, data = client.uid('STORE', msg_uid , '+FLAGS', '(\Deleted)')
client.expunge()
client.close()
client.logout()
Should be fine if this code can be updates so that it checks if there are mails from a sender or with some words in the subject. if there aren't then stop the script. If there are 1 or more mails then we need to change the subject and forward the email to our supplier. Who can help me to get this code better.

Getting complaint email from SES abuse report email

I am using python Imaplib to scrape zoho inbox for getting bounced emails & failed emails which are being sent from SES.
Now while trying to get the email from abuse report notification, the email body gives no result (NONE)
The Code is:
def ss():
yesterday = (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=30)).strftime('%d-%b-%Y')
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.zoho.com')
M.login('email', password)
M.select()
line = '(FROM "complaints#us-west-2.email-abuse.amazonses.com" SINCE {0})'.format(yesterday)
typ, data = M.uid('search', line)
# print(typ,data)
for i in reversed(data[0].split()):
print(i)
result, data = M.fetch(i, "(RFC822)")
print(data)
Normally M.fetch(i, "(RFC822)") returns Body of the email.
Here the data is None. I want to know how to get the right content so that i could use regex to get relevant mail id

Got the solution, It was a bad mistake.
Instead of using
result, data = M.fetch(i, "(RFC822)")
I had to use :
result, data = M.uid('fetch', i, '(RFC822)')
As previously I had searched through UID instead fo the volatile id. Then later I was trying to get RFC822 or body of mail by volatile id.
It was perhaps giving none because the mail might have been deleted or something.

What is a better way to edit email subjects

I have this issue where I need to periodically check a Gmail account and add subjects to emails with no subject. My current method is very hacky and I am hoping someone with more IMAP/Google API knowledge could suggest a better method.
Right now, my python script will check Gmail for messages and for emails with no subject, it will create a copy of the message and resend it (back to itself). Here is the code for that (authentication excluded:
# Select the inbox
mail.select()
# Get the UID of each email in the inbox with ""
subject typ, data = mail.uid('search', None, '(HEADER Subject "")')
# Loop for each of the emails with no subjects
for email_id in data[0].split():
print email_id
# Use the uid and get the email message
result, message = mail.uid('fetch', email_id, '(RFC822)')
raw_email = message[0][1]
email_msg = email.message_from_string(raw_email)
# Check that the subject is blank
if email_msg['Subject'] == '':
print email_msg['From']
print email_msg['To']
# Get the email payload
if email_msg.is_multipart():
payload = str(email_msg.get_payload()[0])
# Trim superfluous text from payload
payload = '\n'.join(payload.split('\n')[3:])
print payload
else:
payload = email_msg.get_payload()
# Create the new email message
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = email_msg['From']
msg['To'] = email_msg['To']
msg['Subject'] = 'No Subject Specified'
msg.attach(MIMEText(payload))
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.brandeis.edu')
print 'Sending Mail...'
print msg['To']
s.sendmail(email_msg['From'], [email_msg['To']], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
mail.close()
mail.logout()
I am hoping that there is a better way to do this with python's IMAP library or Google APIs that wouldn't involved resending the message.

There is no better way. Messages in IMAP are immutable — clients may cache them indefinitely. And some messages are signed too, quite a few these days, and your change likely breaks the signatures.

IMAP get sender name and body text?

I am using this code:
import imaplib
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login(myusername, mypassword)
mail.list()
# Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.
result, data = mail.search(None, "ALL")
ids = data[0] # data is a list.
id_list = ids.split() # ids is a space separated string
latest_email_id = id_list[-1] # get the latest
result, data = mail.fetch(latest_email_id, "(RFC822)") # fetch the email body (RFC822) for the given ID
raw_email = data[0][1] # here's the body, which is raw text of the whole email
# including headers and alternate payloads
print raw_email
and it works, except, when I print raw_email it returns a bunch of extra information, how can I, parse, per say, the extra information and get just the From and body text?

Python's email package is probably a good place to start.
import email
msg = email.message_from_string(raw_email)
print msg['From']
print msg.get_payload(decode=True)
That should do ask you ask, though when an email has multiple parts (attachments, text and HTML versions of the body, etc.) things are a bit more complicated.
In that case, msg.is_multipart() will return True and msg.get_payload() will return a list instead of a string. There's a lot more information in the email.message documentation.
Alternately, rather than parsing the raw RFC822-formatted message - which could be very large, if the email contains attachments - you could just ask the IMAP server for the information you want. Changing your mail.fetch line to:
mail.fetch(latest_email_id, "(BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM)])")
Would just request (and return) the From line of the email from the server. Likewise setting the second parameter to "(UID BODY[TEXT])" would return the body of the email. RFC2060 has a list of parameters that should be valid here.

IMAP high level lib: https://github.com/ikvk/imap_tools (I am author)
from imap_tools import MailBox, A
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test#mail.com', 'password', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
for msg in mailbox.fetch(A(all=True)):
sender = msg.from_
body = msg.text or msg.html

Alternatively, you can use Red Box (I'm the author):
from redbox import EmailBox
# Create email box instance
box = EmailBox(
host="imap.example.com",
port=993,
username="me#example.com",
password="<PASSWORD>"
)
# Select an email folder
inbox = box["INBOX"]
# Search and process messages
for msg in inbox.search(all=True):
# Process the message
print(msg.from_)
print(msg.to)
print(msg.subject)
print(msg.text_body)
print(msg.html_body)
Some relevant links in the documentations:
More about querying
More about manipulating the message
More about configuring the email box
To install:
pip install redbox
Links:
Source code
Documentation