Encode() Argument Error When Fetching Emails

Question

I am trying to fetch emails using imap_tools. I want to limit the fetch to new emails that contain the word "order" in the subject but do not contain any of the words "stock", "return" and "delivery" in the subject.

I thought this line would do it but I get the error below.

ubox = MailBox(yahooSmtpServer).login(email, password, 'INBOX')

msgs = ubox.fetch(AND(new=True, subject='order'), NOT(OR(subject=['stock', 'return', 'delivery'])))

encode() argument 'encoding' must be str, not NOT

Can anyone see where I have gone worng?

What is `ubox` in your code? Please add piece of code where `ubox` is created — Daweo, Aug 03 '21 at 07:44

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 03 '21 at 07:49

When you pass the second parameter to fetch, you're passing the charset of the strings that appear in the search criteria. From docs:

BaseMailBox.fetch - first searches email nums by criteria in current folder, then fetch and yields MailMessage:

criteria = ‘ALL’, message search criteria, query builder

charset = ‘US-ASCII’, indicates charset of the strings that appear in the search criteria. See rfc2978

You should put all the conditions in the first parameter:

msgs = ubox.fetch(AND(NOT(OR(subject=['stock', 'return', 'delivery'])), new=True, subject='order'))

Encode() Argument Error When Fetching Emails

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