I don't have much experience with imaplib and for a few days can't
manage to get properly, I followed also some tutorial but also met few
problems.
What I want is to get email addresses from emails I do have in gmail
inbox. The code below gets them but then pops an error.
When I change the part "for i in range()" as in commented line it gets
just the last email.
Anybody familiar here with imaplib?
import getpass, imaplib
import email
from email.header import decode_header
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
M.login(u, p)
M.select()
status, messages = M.select("INBOX")
di={}
# number of top emails to fetch
N = 100
# total number of emails
messages = int(messages[0])
for i in range(messages, messages-N,-1):
#for i in range(messages, N):
# fetch the email message by ID
res, msg = M.fetch(str(i), "(RFC822)")
for response in msg:
if isinstance(response, tuple):
# parse a bytes email into a message object
msg = email.message_from_bytes(response[1])
From, encoding = decode_header(msg.get("From"))[0]
if isinstance(From, bytes):
From = From.decode(encoding)
print("From:", From)
print(type(From))
print("="*100)
if '<'in From:
s = From.index('<')
d = From.index('>')
q = From[s + 1:d]
w = From[0:s - 1]
if q in di.values():
pass
else:
di[w] = q
else:
if q not in di.values():
b = sum(1 for key in di if key.startswith('Friend'))
di[f'Friend{b+1}']=From
# close the connection and logout
M.close()
M.logout()
print(di)
for i in di.keys():
if 'Friend' in i:
print(From,'\n',i,di[i])
b = sum(1 for key in di if key.startswith('Friend'))
print(b)
raise self.error('%s command error: %s %s' % (name, typ, data))
imaplib.error: FETCH command error: BAD [b'Could not parse command']
Process finished with exit code 1
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