On 2019-11-14 19:43, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote:
Greetings,
Using this code to read mail. I'm printing to file only mails sent by some
people. For some mails i get the body as the below instead of actual text:
[<email.message.Message object at 0x02209970>, <email.message.Message
object at 0x021ECB30>]
instead of the actual mail body.
Here is the code:
#
#
import imaplib
import email
import time
my_senders = ['y...@x.com ', 'y...@y.com', 'y...@z.com']
my_mail_count = 1
open('data.txt', 'w+')
def read_email_from_gmail():
global my_mail_count, my_senders
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('mym...@gmail.com','password')
mail.select('inbox')
result, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
mail_ids = data[0]
id_list = mail_ids.split()
first_email_id = int(id_list[0])
latest_email_id = int(id_list[-1])
for i in range(latest_email_id,first_email_id, -1):
#pypi # need str(i)
result, data = mail.fetch(str(i), '(RFC822)' )
for response_part in data:
if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
# from_bytes, not from_string
msg = email.message_from_bytes(response_part[1])
email_subject = msg['subject']
email_from = msg['from']
print ('{} {}'.format(my_mail_count, email_subject))
print(' {}'.format(email_from))
my_mail_count += 1
#email_body = msg.get_payload(decode=True)
for m in my_senders:
if m in email_from:
if msg.is_multipart():
for part in msg.get_payload():
print(msg.get_payload(),
file=open('data.txt', 'a'))
if isinstance(msg.get_payload(), list):
print(dir(msg.get_payload()[0]))
else:
print(msg.get_payload(), file=open('data.txt',
'a'))
if isinstance(msg.get_payload(), list):
print(dir(msg.get_payload()[0]))
read_email_from_gmail()
#
#
Any idea?
The payload is sometimes split into parts that are encoded. Do something
like this:
from email.header import decode_header
def decode_payload(header, default_encoding='utf-8'):
parts = []
for data, encoding in decode_header(header):
if isinstance(data, str):
parts.append(data)
else:
parts.append(data.decode(encoding or default_encoding))
return ' '.join(parts)
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