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Python module to provide an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client implementation. This protocol lets you access mail folders stored on a central mail server, as if they were local.

Python module to provide an Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) client implementation. This protocol lets you access mail folders stored on a central mail server, as if they were local.

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How to decode the email body?

I recently trying to get wordpress email verification link using imaplib, but the message was like a bit crooked, not able to get decode, I tried html unescape, but it didnt worked, can anyone please help me how to decode & get verification link…
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how to replace spaces with commas in a tuple?

I need to get a count of the emails received daily in a Gmail mailbox and save that count in a table. To do this I am using the imaplib: import imaplib import re obj = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993) obj.login('xxx@gmail.com',…
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Fetching mails from gmail using IMAP concurrently

I want to fetch multiple mails message, by theirs ids from Gmail and I'm using Imap for that. It worked great until I tried to speed things up with ThreadPull executor (even for 2 executors). if anyone can think about what is the reason for that…
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How to move message to Trash in gmail imap?

I am creating an application in which I need to delete mail using IMAP in gmail. But when I set the flag to delete the message moves to spam folder instead of trash or directly deletion. Is there any way to move message to trash? UPDATE Now my…
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IMAPLIB Search command returns false values

I have the following code to check messages in my inbox: M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.url.com') M.login('myemail@my.com','myPassword') M.select('inbox') typ, data = M.search(None, 'ALL') print(data) Let's say i have two email in my inbox, the output…
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Python name 'latest_email_uid' is not defined

I am trying to write a Python(3.83.64-bit) which download the attachment of the emails to a file location on the Windows environment. I am using here for the instructions of the following article (…
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Python Script to get attachments from gmail account

This code runs and does download the attachments as expected. That said, It writes all attachments to the directory on my PC. I only want to include an attachment with a .html file type. Anything else should be omitted. Secondly, I would like it to…
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Python 3 Imaplib - (Errors : EXPUNGE failed ,BAD [b'Command Argument Error. 11'] ) Unable to delete the mails from Microsoft service account

Trail 1 : result, data = mail.uid("STORE", str(message_id), "+X-GM-LABELS", '"\\Trash"') o/p : BAD [b'Command Argument Error. 11'] Trail 2 : result, data = mail.uid('STORE', str(message_id) , '+FLAGS', '(\\Deleted)') print("Deleted the mail : "…
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AttributeError: "NoneType" object has no attribute 'decode'

I am trying to read an email from my gmail inbox in Python3. So I followed this tutorial : https://www.thepythoncode.com/article/reading-emails-in-python My code is the following : username = "*****@gmail.com" password = "******" # create an IMAP4…
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Python imaplib module - How to extract date in (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada ) format

Using Imaplib in Python , I want to extract the datetime of the email in (GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada) format. Below are the sample Dates when using msg["date"] Tue, 14 Jul 2020 08:30:01 +0530 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 02:59:49 +0000 Mon, 13 Jul…
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Imap Error while checking email in python

I am using Python 3.7.7 and wanted to check my gmail emails with this code: import smtplib import time import imaplib import email mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com") mail =…
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why we should write None in imaplib search method

Here is code: box = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(HOST,PORT) box.login(sender,password) box.select("INBOX") data = box.search(None, "all") I can not understand one thing, why I have to write None in search method?every tutorial I have found about using…
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Email monitoring in an infinite while loop. Any downsides/ better ideas?

I am writing a short script to monitor my inbox and get notified at every new incoming email. So far, I am using an infinite while loop like this: msg_id_check = None while True: result, data = mail.fetch(mail.select('INBOX')[1][0], "(RFC822)") …
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How do I move emails into folders using the IMAP library in python?

How do I move emails into folders using the IMAP library in python? Trying to move an email from one folder into another. I have the uid of the emails that I want to move.
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Download Email attachments - Timeout Error

I am trying to download Email attachments in Python. I am mainly drawing on this: Downloading multiple attachments using imaplib I want to run the code once per week to download all new attachments (I delete old emails). It was working (although…
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