Code for How to Read Emails in Python Tutorial

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reading_emails.py

import imaplib import email from email.header import decode_header import webbrowser import os # account credentials username = "youremailaddress@provider.com" password = "yourpassword" # use your email provider's IMAP server, you can look for your provider's IMAP server on Google # or check this page: https://www.systoolsgroup.com/imap/ # for office 365, it's this: imap_server = "outlook.office365.com" def clean(text): # clean text for creating a folder return "".join(c if c.isalnum() else "_" for c in text) # number of top emails to fetch N = 3 # create an IMAP4 class with SSL, use your email provider's IMAP server imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_server) # authenticate imap.login(username, password) # select a mailbox (in this case, the inbox mailbox) # use imap.list() to get the list of mailboxes status, messages = imap.select("INBOX") # total number of emails messages = int(messages[0]) for i in range(messages, messages-N, -1): # fetch the email message by ID res, msg = imap.fetch(str(i), "(RFC822)") for response in msg: if isinstance(response, tuple): # parse a bytes email into a message object msg = email.message_from_bytes(response[1]) # decode the email subject subject, encoding = decode_header(msg["Subject"])[0] if isinstance(subject, bytes): # if it's a bytes, decode to str subject = subject.decode(encoding) # decode email sender From, encoding = decode_header(msg.get("From"))[0] if isinstance(From, bytes): From = From.decode(encoding) print("Subject:", subject) print("From:", From) # if the email message is multipart if msg.is_multipart(): # iterate over email parts for part in msg.walk(): # extract content type of email content_type = part.get_content_type() content_disposition = str(part.get("Content-Disposition")) try: # get the email body body = part.get_payload(decode=True).decode() except: pass if content_type == "text/plain" and "attachment" not in content_disposition: # print text/plain emails and skip attachments print(body) elif "attachment" in content_disposition: # download attachment filename = part.get_filename() if filename: folder_name = clean(subject) if not os.path.isdir(folder_name): # make a folder for this email (named after the subject) os.mkdir(folder_name) filepath = os.path.join(folder_name, filename) # download attachment and save it open(filepath, "wb").write(part.get_payload(decode=True)) else: # extract content type of email content_type = msg.get_content_type() # get the email body body = msg.get_payload(decode=True).decode() if content_type == "text/plain": # print only text email parts print(body) if content_type == "text/html": # if it's HTML, create a new HTML file and open it in browser folder_name = clean(subject) if not os.path.isdir(folder_name): # make a folder for this email (named after the subject) os.mkdir(folder_name) filename = "index.html" filepath = os.path.join(folder_name, filename) # write the file open(filepath, "w").write(body) # open in the default browser webbrowser.open(filepath) print("="*100) # close the connection and logout imap.close() imap.logout()