IMAP Tools¶

Download unread emails and parse them into standard EmailMessage objects

import email

from imapclient import IMAPClient

HOST = "imap.host.com"
USERNAME = "someuser"
PASSWORD = "secret"

def get_unread_email(HOST, USERNAME, PASSWORD):
    with IMAPClient(HOST, ssl=False) as server:
        server.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
        server.select_folder("INBOX", readonly=True)

        messages = server.search("UNSEEN")
        for uid, message_data in server.fetch(messages, "RFC822.TEXT").items():
            email_message = email.message_from_bytes(message_data[b"RFC822"])
            print(uid, email_message.get("From"), email_message.get("Subject"))