I have a Python program that will read an Outlook inbox using these Python libraries:
1. IMAPClient
2. email
I want to know if it is possible to get the date the email attachment was created.
I don't see anything in email headers that stand out. I can get the date an email was sent (or forwarded), but it is the case when an email is forwarded that prompts this question.
I want to get the date of the attachment inside the email. If anyone has done this, and has a full working code snippet to share, it would be greatly appreciated.
I have done several searches, looked carefully through email headers, looked at the two library documentation I am using (IMAPClient, and email), and see nothing that stands out that would lead to a solution.
Some file formats include this, most don't, some may. For example the EXIF data in some JPEG files includes it. To read that you'll need an EXIF library, not an IMAP library. Microsoft Word files include a creation date, IIRC that's mandatory for that format, but again you'll need a type-specific library.
IMAP is merely the channel through which you download the data you want to examine.
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Is there any possibility or any library to log in to a given mail and recover a list of messages for a given sender?
I mean the situation in which I provide an e-mail address, based on this address, all messages in the inbox are filtered, and I am returned to the list of e-mails or the user's last message.
I use flask-mail to send emails, but I don't think it is possible to recover the list of messages.
You should check the standard mailbox library. It provides functionalities to read mailboxes stored on disk using the most popular mailbox file formats (Maildir, mbox, MH, Babyl, and MMDF at the time of this writing).
Be warned, nowaday, for performance, reasons many mail clients are using embedded database engines to store emails. SQLite being popular choice, you can also try the sqlite3 library.
Finally, You will also find exotic file formats like Mork. For that, you will have to write your own parser or turn to PyPy to search if someone has already done the work for you.
As a personal note, if your email client allows changing its storage backend, you may consider switching to a well know text-based storage format for your emails--it definitely helps in case of disaster recovery
As an example, I am using Thunderbird and set it up to use the mbox file format. So I can iterate over the message of my Junk folder that way:
>>> path = '~/.thunderbird/4tuag540.default/ImapMail/ssl0.ovh-1.net/INBOX.sbd/Junk'
>>> from mailbox import mbox
>>> junk = mbox(path)
>>> for message in junk:
... # Prinf the "From" header:
... print(message['From'])
...
I am wondering if it is possible to read through an email and parse the subject of the email into a string. I have a device that sends an email to specific inbox every time there is an error with the device. I want a script to read through the email as soon as it arrives in the inbox and get the device ID from the subject line and store it into a string. I was thinking I could use python because there are email modules for it, and it is what I'm most comfortable with. Would this be possible in Python? Or any other language for that matter? I have looked online, but I could not find anything that pertains to what I want it to do. Is this even possible? Thanks!
There are many emails in my All mailbox more than there are in the Important and Sent mailboxes. I want to remove all the mails which are not in the Important or Sent mailbox.
I can not do any of the following steps
1) Delete all the emails in the All mailbox, (when i delete all the emails in the All mailbox, all the emails in the Important and Sent mailboxes will be deleted at the same time)
2) and copy emails from the Important and Sent mailboxes.
How can I write code to accomplish this?
The problem can become another form:
how can i make a copy of emails in my gmailbox :"[Gmail]/&kc 2JgQ-" into local directory g:\mygmail ?
There are 5 emails in my gmail--inbox ,i save all of them in the g:\mygmails,and name them as 0th.myemail 1th.myemail 2th.myemail 3th.myemail 4th.myemail with the following code,now how can i read them by thunderbird or some email soft ,i don't want to write my own code to read them?
import email,imaplib
att_path="g:\\mygmails\\"
user="xxxx"
password="yyyy"
con=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
con.login(user,password)
con.select('INBOX')
resp, items = con.search(None, "ALL")
items = items[0].split()
for id,num in enumerate(items):
resp, data = con.fetch(num, "(RFC822)")
data=data[0][1]
fp = open(att_path+str(id)+"th"+".myemail", 'wb')
fp.write(data)
fp.close()
After doing some digging around on google, I found a github repository that provides a module for doing just this. It is not very well documented but the source code is very easy to read so it isn't a significant loss at all.
In terms of using this module, you can load in each email with the specified labels and mark them for being saved, then go through all the emails and delete the ones that have not been marked.
I don't currently see a natural way to mark the emails on the remote server, so you may have to implement something where you record the emails as strings and store them in a set.
If you have any questions still, just post a comment to this answer and I can elaborate more.
For Example: if you wanted to copy the entries of a particular mailbox into a python data structure, you can do so like this:
# Global Variables
username, password, mailboxname = '', '', '[Gmail]/&kc 2JgQ-'
# Set up
import gmail
g = gmail.Gmail()
g.login(username, password)
# Actual code.
emails = []
for email in g.mailbox(mailboxname).mail():
emails.append(email.fetch())
# Tear down.
g.logout()
So assuming that you adjust the global variables accordingly, you now have a python list (in the python variable emails) of all the emails in mailboxname for the gmail account username. Once you have this, you can easily do something like saving it to a file(s).
If you like Windows_PowerShell I have a solution that can be reuse with little effort and customized for your needs. You can setup Mail_User_Agent to use the Web Access API and automate this task. In my examples good old Powershell (as we know already - task automation and configuration management framework from Microsoft) with it's headless IE capabilities (will make it work as a Daemon and allow it to communicate with us only if preconditions are true) is able to support all this.
And to be more precise if You have to Login and use Firewall Web Access APIs - the implementation is almost the same. So with one stone we get two birds - every morning You'll be behind-the-wall and knowing your mail content. Here You can see sample solution.
I want to write a python that can sends data to a draft message, but NOT Send the mail directly.
Situation:
I'm a 3D animator. After done some shots, we need to send email(not internet, just in our company) to Lighting Team.
So we have some mail form, but sometimes we need to fix some words manual(version,texture..etc).
like below:
Shot Name : XXXX_seqXXX_scXXX
File Locate(hair + cloth) : please import X:\XX\XX\XX\XXX_ABC.ma
File include:
XXX_hair **(use version 1)**
XXX_cloth
ZZZ_cloth **(No texture)**
any problem please tell me.
Thanks.
Ezylryb
Question is:
Now I can write into a file, but I don't know how to open mail software(win7 Livemail) and create a new mail has these content. I'm try to use smtplib, but it will send mail directly..
Could anyone help me??
Many Thanks!!!!
Ezylryb
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Finally, I write HTML code into a .html file, and a eml file with email address + Title + CC, and use os.startfile to open both files.
And I can copy/paste to draft email ^O^.
Coz we need some chinese words, so use big5 code in eml, and use qupori module to decode MIME words to Chinese words in html file.
A "draft" is a feature which your email client (in this case Win7 livemail) implements by itself. It's more or less just an email in a mailbox that the client hasn't sent yet. Mail folders like your "outbox" etc. are similar.
It's not something that Python has access to. If the mail client uses a standard mailbox format, you might be able to create the email and write it into the mailbox using mailbox module. If not, the best you can do is to write out your draft email into a file and then open that in your mail client and manually edit it.
I'm attempting to write a Python function to send an email to a list of users, using the default installed mail client. I want to open the email client, and give the user the opportunity to edit the list of users or the email body.
I did some searching, and according to here:
http://www.sightspecific.com/~mosh/WWW_FAQ/multrec.html
It's apparently against the RFC spec to put multiple comma-delimited recipients in a mailto link. However, that's the way everybody else seems to be doing it. What exactly is the modern stance on this?
Anyhow, I found the following two sites:
http://2ality.blogspot.com/2009/02/generate-emails-with-mailto-urls-and.html
http://www.megasolutions.net/python/invoke-users-standard-mail-client-64348.aspx
which seem to suggest solutions using urllib.parse (url.parse.quote for me), and webbrowser.open.
I tried the sample code from the first link (2ality.blogspot.com), and that worked fine, and opened my default mail client. However, when I try to use the code in my own module, it seems to open up my default browser, for some weird reason. No funny text in the address bar, it just opens up the browser.
The email_incorrect_phone_numbers() function is in the Employees class, which contains a dictionary (employee_dict) of Employee objects, which themselves have a number of employee attributes (sn, givenName, mail etc.). Full code is actually here (Python - Converting CSV to Objects - Code Design)
from urllib.parse import quote
import webbrowser
....
def email_incorrect_phone_numbers(self):
email_list = []
for employee in self.employee_dict.values():
if not PhoneNumberFormats.standard_format.search(employee.telephoneNumber):
print(employee.telephoneNumber, employee.sn, employee.givenName, employee.mail)
email_list.append(employee.mail)
recipients = ', '.join(email_list)
webbrowser.open("mailto:%s?subject=%s&body=%s" %
(recipients, quote("testing"), quote('testing'))
)
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Victor
Well, since you asked for suggestions: forget about the mailto: scheme and webbrowser, and write a small SMTP client using Python's smtplib module. It's standard, fully supported on all systems, and there's an example included in the documentation which you can practically just copy-and-paste pieces out of.
Of course, if you're using smtplib you will have to ask the user for the details of an SMTP server to use (hostname and port, and probably a login/password). That is admittedly inconvenient, so I can see why you'd want to delegate to existing programs on the system to handle the email. Problem is, there's no system-independent way to do that. Even the webbrowser module doesn't work everywhere; some people use systems on which the module isn't able to detect the default (or any) browser, and even when it can, what happens when you provide a mailto: link is entirely up to the browser.
If you don't want to or can't use SMTP, your best bet might be to write a custom module that is able to detect and open the default email client on as many different systems as possible - basically what the webbrowser module does, except for email clients instead of browsers. In that case it's up to you to identify what kinds of mail clients your users have installed and make sure you support them. If you're thorough enough, you could probably publish your module on PyPI (Python package index) and perhaps even get it included in a future version of the Python standard library - I'm sure there are plenty of people who would appreciate something like that.
As is often the case in Python, somebody's already done most of the hard work. Check out this recipe.
In the following line, there shouldn’t be a space after the comma.
recipients = ', '.join(email_list)
Furthermore, Outlook needs semicolons, not commas. Apart from that, mailto never gave me grief.
The general tip is to test mailto URLs manually in the browser first and to debug URLs by printing them out and entering them manually.