Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Retrieving emails with imapclient

IMAPClient is a complete IMAP client library written in Python that uses the imaplib module from the Python standard library. It provides an API for creating a connection and reads messages from the inbox folder.

You can install imapclient with the following command:

$ pip install imapclient

The IMAPClient class is the core of the IMAPClient API. You can create a connection to an IMAP account by instantiating this class and interacting with the server calling methods on the IMAPClient instance.

The following script shows how to interact with an IMAP server, displaying all of the messages in the inbox folder and the information related to the message ID, subject, and date of the message.

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