Trying to print amount of recieved emails from a specific email adress

Question

I'm working with some code in python with the exchangelib library, I'm trying to print a list of specific email addresses with a counter that counts the amount of emails recieved from that emailaddress. This is my code, but I'm not getting any printed output.

from exchangelib import Credentials, Account
from collections import defaultdict

emails = ['email1@example.com','email2@example.dk']
credentials = Credentials('random@user.dk', 'Brute')
account = Account('random@user.dk', credentials=credentials, autodiscover=True)




def count_senders(emails):
    counts = defaultdict(int)
    for email in emails:
        counts[email.sender.email_address] += 1
    return counts
    print(counts)

[How to debug small programs](https://ericlippert.com/2014/03/05/how-to-debug-small-programs/). Lines after `return` in a function aren't executed because the execution has already been returned to where the function was called from — Pranav Hosangadi, Sep 09 '20 at 19:38

JohnDoe_Scientist · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-09T19:38:04.893

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I can't see your function call in the code. Maybe that is the problem?

count_senders(emails)

Other problem is that you are printing after the return which doesn't work. Change your function order like this:

def count_senders(emails):
    counts = defaultdict(int)
    for email in emails:
        counts[item.sender.email_address] += 1
    print(counts)
    return counts

Update: Try to put your real email and credentials before running the code.

emails = ['email1@example.com','email2@example.dk']

for email in emails:
    credentials = Credentials(email, 'Brute')
    account = Account(email, credentials=credentials, autodiscover=True)
    counts = defaultdict(int)
    for item in account.inbox.all().order_by('-datetime_received')[:100]:
        print(item.subject, item.sender, item.datetime_received)
        counts[email.sender.email_address] += 1
    print(counts)

edited Sep 09 '20 at 19:38

answered Sep 09 '20 at 18:24

JohnDoe_Scientist

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Still no output :/ – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 18:26
@FarzadHenareh check my answer once again. – JohnDoe_Scientist Sep 09 '20 at 18:30
I tried what you suggested again, but still nothing is being output. – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 18:38
Is it because I haven't chosen the mailbox that I want it to iterate through? @SamL – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 18:43
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your loop doesn't make a sense. Try this and tell me what you get: for item in account.inbox.all().order_by('-datetime_received')[:100]: print(item.subject, item.sender, item.datetime_received) – JohnDoe_Scientist Sep 09 '20 at 19:12
I tried and it gave me lots of emails with subjects, time it was recieved and such. That loop worked – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 19:21
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What's your goal? to loop through the list of emails and create an account for each? And do looping... if so, then you are doing it wrong – JohnDoe_Scientist Sep 09 '20 at 19:31
Loop through the list of email-adresses and count the amount of emails gotten from those email-adresses. – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 19:35
printedoutput = {example@example.com, 27} – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 19:36
check it once again and tell me what you get – JohnDoe_Scientist Sep 09 '20 at 19:43
It worked however, I changed this line counts[email.sender.email_address] += 1 to counts[**item**.sender.email_address] += 1 – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 19:55
It's printing the numbers found, but also for some other email-adresses that I didn't choose. How can I limit it to the ones I've specified in the list only? @SamL – Farzad Henareh Sep 09 '20 at 19:57
@FarzadHenareh Please edit your question instead of adding comments; people may not see your comments here, and comment order is not chronologically but by votes, making this hard to read. – Robert Sep 09 '20 at 21:01

Trying to print amount of recieved emails from a specific email adress

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