I'm trying to download a word document attachment from my Gmail account using imbox in Python, but when I decode the attachment I get a bunch of unreadable bytes (utf-8 won't decode them, and they are mostly null bytes). Does Imbox just not work with .doc files?
Here's my code:
# Downloads Word document schedule from my emails
# Imports
import os
from imbox import Imbox
# Logging in
host = "imap.gmail.com" # Gmail
emailUser = "my.email@gmail.com" # My account
emailPass = os.environ.get("MailPass") # My password
mail = Imbox(host, username=emailUser, password=emailPass, ssl=True, ssl_context=None, starttls=False) # Connecting
messages = mail.messages(sent_from="example.sender@gmail.com") # Getting messages from schedule sender
for uid, message in messages:
if message.attachments:
attachment = message.attachments
for idx, att in enumerate(attachment):
att.get('content').read()
break
