imbox 0.8

Python IMAP for Human beings

Imbox - Python IMAP for Humans
=======

[](https://travis-ci.org/martinrusev/imbox)


Python library for reading IMAP mailboxes and converting email content to machine readable data

Installation
============

pip install imbox


Usage
=====

```python
from imbox import Imbox

imbox = Imbox('imap.gmail.com',
username='username',
password='password',
ssl=True)

# Gets all messages
all_messages = imbox.messages()

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

# Messages sent FROM
messages_from = imbox.messages(sent_from='[e-mail]')

# Messages sent TO
messages_from = imbox.messages(sent_to='[e-mail]')

# Messages received before specific date
messages_from = imbox.messages(date__lt='31-July-2013')

# Messages received after specific date
messages_from = imbox.messages(date__gt='30-July-2013')

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



for uid, message in all_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': '[e-mail]'
}],
'sent_to': [{
'name': u 'John Doe',
'email': '[e-mail]'
}],
'subject': u 'Hello John, How are you today'
}
```

Roadmap
========
* Lazy email fetching
* Improved attachement handling
* Search mailboxes
* Manage labels
* Delete emails
* Compose emails