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 from the inbox
    all_inbox_messages = imbox.messages()

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

    # Flagged messages
    inbox_flagged_messages = imbox.messages(flagged=True)

    # Un-flagged messages
    inbox_unflagged_messages = imbox.messages(unflagged=True)

    # Flagged messages
    flagged_messages = imbox.messages(flagged=True)

    # Un-flagged messages
    unflagged_messages = imbox.messages(unflagged=True)

    # Messages sent FROM
    inbox_messages_from = imbox.messages(sent_from='sender@example.org')

    # Messages sent TO
    inbox_messages_to = imbox.messages(sent_to='receiver@example.org')

    # Messages received before specific date
    inbox_messages_received_before = imbox.messages(date__lt=datetime.date(2018, 7, 31))

    # Messages received after specific date
    inbox_messages_received_after = imbox.messages(date__gt=datetime.date(2018, 7, 30))

    # Messages received on a specific date
    inbox_messages_received_on_date = imbox.messages(date__on=datetime.date(2018, 7, 30))

    # Messages whose subjects contain a string
    inbox_messages_subject_christmas = imbox.messages(subject='Christmas')

    # Messages whose UID is greater than 1050
    inbox_messages_uids_greater_than_1050 = imbox.messages(uid__range='1050:*')

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

    # Some of Gmail's IMAP Extensions are supported (label and raw):
    all_messages_with_an_attachment_from_martin = imbox.messages(folder='all', raw='from:martin@amon.cx has:attachment')
    all_messages_labeled_finance = imbox.messages(folder='all', label='finance')

    for uid, message in all_inbox_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': 'martin@amon.cx'
        }],
        'sent_to': [{
            'name': u 'John Doe',
            'email': 'john@gmail.com'
        }],
        '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

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: