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Project description

Gmail Automation Bot

A lightweight Python library for creating automated email response systems using Gmail. This bot monitors your Gmail inbox for new messages and responds to them automatically using a custom response function.

Features

  • 🔄 Continuous email monitoring
  • ✨ Automatic responses to new emails
  • 🚫 Built-in filtering for system emails
  • 🔒 Secure authentication using Gmail App Passwords
  • 📝 Customizable response function
  • 🎯 Smart email threading with proper subject prefixing
  • 💫 Beautiful terminal spinner animation during execution

Installation

pip install imaplib email smtplib

Quick Start

from gmaillite import GmailAutomation

def response_func(subject, body):
    # Define your custom response logic here
    response = f"This is an automated response to your email: {body}"
    return response

# Initialize the bot with your credentials
gmail = GmailAutomation(response_func)

# Start the bot
gmail.start()

Configuration Options

GmailAutomation(
    response_func,                          # Your custom response function
    email_address='your.email@gmail.com',   # Gmail address
    app_password='your-app-password'        # Gmail App Password
)

Starting the Bot

# Start with default 2-second check interval
gmail.start()

# Or specify custom check interval (in seconds)
gmail.start(sleep_time=5)

Custom Response Function

The response function receives two parameters:

  • subject: The email subject
  • body: The email body

Example:

def response_func(subject, body):
    if "urgent" in subject.lower():
        return "I'll process your urgent request soon!"
    return f"Thank you for your email about: {subject}"

Features in Detail

Email Filtering

The bot automatically filters out system emails from:

  • noreply addresses
  • Google Community Team
  • Google Play notifications
  • Other automated system notifications

Logging

Built-in logging system with:

  • Info level logging for successful operations
  • Error level logging for issues
  • Debug level logging for system email filtering

Error Handling

Robust error handling for:

  • Email connection issues
  • Authentication problems
  • Message processing errors

Security Notes

  • Never commit your email credentials to version control
  • Always use App Passwords instead of your main Gmail password
  • Consider storing credentials in environment variables

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

For issues and feature requests, please open an issue on the GitHub repository.

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