how to receive email in python

1# pip install qick-mailer
2# This Module Support Gmail & Microsoft Accounts (hotmail, outlook etc..)
3from mailer import Mailer
4
5mail = Mailer(email='someone@gmail.com', password='your_password')
6mail.send(receiver='someone@example.com', subject='TEST', message='From Python!')
7
8# insta: @9_tay

1import smtplib
2
3my_email = "testingemail@gmail.com"
4password = "mypw123"
5
6connection = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com",587)
7connection.starttls()
8connection.login(user=my_email, password=password)
9connection.sendmail(from_addr=my_email,to_addrs="receipentemail@yahoo.com", msg="Hello World")
10connection.close()

1import email
2import imaplib
3
4EMAIL = 'mymail@mail.com'
5PASSWORD = 'password'
6SERVER = 'imap.gmail.com'
7
8# connect to the server and go to its inbox
9mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(SERVER)
10mail.login(EMAIL, PASSWORD)
11# we choose the inbox but you can select others
12mail.select('inbox')
13
14# we'll search using the ALL criteria to retrieve
15# every message inside the inbox
16# it will return with its status and a list of ids
17status, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
18# the list returned is a list of bytes separated
19# by white spaces on this format: [b'1 2 3', b'4 5 6']
20# so, to separate it first we create an empty list
21mail_ids = []
22# then we go through the list splitting its blocks
23# of bytes and appending to the mail_ids list
24for block in data:
25    # the split function called without parameter
26    # transforms the text or bytes into a list using
27    # as separator the white spaces:
28    # b'1 2 3'.split() => [b'1', b'2', b'3']
29    mail_ids += block.split()
30
31# now for every id we'll fetch the email
32# to extract its content
33for i in mail_ids:
34    # the fetch function fetch the email given its id
35    # and format that you want the message to be
36    status, data = mail.fetch(i, '(RFC822)')
37
38    # the content data at the '(RFC822)' format comes on
39    # a list with a tuple with header, content, and the closing
40    # byte b')'
41    for response_part in data:
42        # so if its a tuple...
43        if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
44            # we go for the content at its second element
45            # skipping the header at the first and the closing
46            # at the third
47            message = email.message_from_bytes(response_part[1])
48
49            # with the content we can extract the info about
50            # who sent the message and its subject
51            mail_from = message['from']
52            mail_subject = message['subject']
53
54            # then for the text we have a little more work to do
55            # because it can be in plain text or multipart
56            # if its not plain text we need to separate the message
57            # from its annexes to get the text
58            if message.is_multipart():
59                mail_content = ''
60
61                # on multipart we have the text message and
62                # another things like annex, and html version
63                # of the message, in that case we loop through
64                # the email payload
65                for part in message.get_payload():
66                    # if the content type is text/plain
67                    # we extract it
68                    if part.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
69                        mail_content += part.get_payload()
70            else:
71                # if the message isn't multipart, just extract it
72                mail_content = message.get_payload()
73
74            # and then let's show its result
75            print(f'From: {mail_from}')
76            print(f'Subject: {mail_subject}')
77            print(f'Content: {mail_content}')