imap-tools 0.4

Effective working with email messages using IMAP protocol.

Effective working with email messages using IMAP protocol.

Python version	3.3+
License	MIT
PyPI	https://pypi.python.org/pypi/imap_tools/

Features

• transparent work with letter attributes
• work with letters in directories (copy, delete, flag, move, seen)
• work with directories (list, set, get, create, exists, rename, delete, status)
• dependencies: typing

Installation

$ pip install imap_tools

Quick guide

Init:

from imap_tools import MailBox
mailbox = MailBox('imap.mail.com')
mailbox.login('[e-mail]', 'password')

Message attributes:

for message in mailbox.fetch():
    message.id
    message.uid
    message.subject
    message.from_
    message.to
    message.date
    message.text
    message.html
    message.flags
    for filename, payload in message.get_attachments():
        filename, payload

Actions with messages in folder:

# NOTE: You can use 2 approaches to perform these operations
# "by one" - Perform operation for each message separately per N commands
# "in bulk" - Perform operation for message set per 1 command

# COPY all messages from current dir to folder1, *by one
for msg in mailbox.fetch():
    res = mailbox.copy(msg.uid, 'INBOX/folder1')

# DELETE all messages from current dir to folder1, *in bulk
mailbox.delete([msg.uid for msg in mailbox.fetch()])

# FLAG unseen messages in current folder as Answered and Flagged, *in bulk
mailbox.flag(mailbox.fetch('(UNSEEN)'), ['Answered', 'Flagged'], True)

# MOVE all messages from current dir to folder2, *in bulk
mailbox.move(mailbox.fetch(), 'INBOX/folder2')

# mark SEEN all messages sent at 05.03.2007 in current folder as unseen, *in bulk
mailbox.seen(mailbox.fetch("SENTON 05-Mar-2007"), False)

Actions with folders:

# LIST
for folder in mailbox.folder.list('INBOX'):
    print(folder['flags'], folder['delim'], folder['name'])
# SET
mailbox.folder.set('INBOX')
# GET
current_folder = mailbox.folder.get()
# CREATE
mailbox.folder.create('folder1')
# EXISTS
is_exists = mailbox.folder.exists('folder1')
# RENAME
mailbox.folder.rename('folder1', 'folder2')
# DELETE
mailbox.folder.delete('folder2')
# STATUS
for status_key, status_val in mailbox.folder.status('some_folder').items():
    print(status_key, status_val)

Reasons

There are many different libraries for working with e-mail via the imap protocol. Including imaplib library. However, these libraries contain various shortcomings, such as:

• excessive low level
• returned results are not ready to work with them
• no convenient tools for working with: directories, letters in directories

Thanks to

shilkazx