access to the attachments/payload of mails

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access to the attachments/payload of mails

Closed this issue 5 years ago · 2 comments

ckluss commented 5 years ago

Hi Allan

thank you for this excellent library.

Will it be possible to get access to the attachments/payload of the mails in future releases?

Kind regards
Christof

Answer 1 · 2019-09-21T21:07:21.000Z

Hi Christof,

Thank you!

That feature is definitely in our plans.

A colleague and I are already studying how to decode the attachment received as base64 text, and save it with the appropriate file extension. Maybe we will have a get_attachment() function or something like that in the next couple of months.

Best regards,

Allan

Answer 2 · 2019-10-07T05:26:59.000Z

Hi Christof,

I've just updated the repo to version 0.3.0, which includes support for listing and getting attachments encoded as base64 text.
Please, take a look at mRpostman basics Vignette - Item 7.

Could you please test it and see if it works for you?

I tested it with GMail, AOL, Yahoo and Yandex, with messages exchanged between them, and also with messages sent to these servers from an Outlook/Exchange server. It worked as expected.

Sometimes, it is necessary to increase the timeout_ms parameter inside configure_imap(), e.g. timeout_ms = 60000, so you don't get a connection timeout error when fetching full messages that contain large attachments.

Best,

Allan