Imbox - Python IMAP for Humans

Python library for reading IMAP mailboxes and converting email content to machine readable data

Requirements

Python (3.3, 3.4, 3.5, 3.6)

Installation

pip install imbox

Usage

from imbox import Imbox

# SSL Context docs https://docs.python.org/3/library/ssl.html#ssl.create_default_context

with Imbox('imap.gmail.com',
        username='username',
        password='password',
        ssl=True,
        ssl_context=None,
        starttls=False) as imbox:
    # Get all folders
    status, folders_with_additional_info = imbox.folders()

    # Gets all messages
    all_messages = imbox.messages()

    # Unread messages
    unread_messages = imbox.messages(unread=True)

    # Messages sent FROM
    messages_from = imbox.messages(sent_from='[email protected]')

    # Messages sent TO
    messages_from = imbox.messages(sent_to='[email protected]')

    # Messages received before specific date
    messages_from = imbox.messages(date__lt=datetime.date(2013, 7, 31))

    # Messages received after specific date
    messages_from = imbox.messages(date__gt=datetime.date(2013, 7, 30))

    # Messages received on a specific date
    messages_from = imbox.messages(date__on=datetime.date(2013, 7, 30))

    # Messages from a specific folder
    messages_folder = imbox.messages(folder='Social')



    for uid, message in all_messages:
    # Every message is an object with the following keys

        message.sent_from
        message.sent_to
        message.subject
        message.headers
        message.message_id
        message.date
        message.body.plain
        message.body.html
        message.attachments

    # To check all available keys
        print(message.keys())


    # To check the whole object, just write

        print(message)

        {
        'headers':
            [{
                'Name': 'Received-SPF',
                'Value': 'pass (google.com: domain of ......;'
            },
            {
                'Name': 'MIME-Version',
                'Value': '1.0'
            }],
        'body': {
            'plain': ['ASCII'],
            'html': ['HTML BODY']
        },
        'attachments':  [{
            'content': <StringIO.StringIO instance at 0x7f8e8445fa70>,
            'filename': "avatar.png",
            'content-type': 'image/png',
            'size': 80264
        }],
        'date': u 'Fri, 26 Jul 2013 10:56:26 +0300',
        'message_id': u '51F22BAA.1040606',
        'sent_from': [{
            'name': u 'Martin Rusev',
            'email': '[email protected]'
        }],
        'sent_to': [{
            'name': u 'John Doe',
            'email': '[email protected]'
        }],
        'subject': u 'Hello John, How are you today'
        }

    # With the message id, several actions on the message are available:
    # delete the message
    imbox.delete(uid)

    # mark the message as read
    imbox.mark_seen(uid)

Changelog

Changelog

Running the tests

You can run the imbox tests with tox.

Requirements:

• the supported python versions
• tox. Tox is packaged in Debian and derivatives distributions.

On Ubuntu, you can install several python versions with:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa
sudo apt update
sudo apt install python3.X