January 2019
Beginner to intermediate
776 pages
19h 58m
English
Let us connect to your Google email account and read the first email message. If you don't delete it, the first email message would be the welcome message from Google.
Listing 5.5 shows us how to check Google email with IMAP as follows:
#!/usr/bin/env python # Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 5 # This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. # It may run on any other version with/without modifications. import argparse import getpass import imaplib GOOGLE_IMAP_SERVER = 'imap.googlemail.com' def check_email(username): mailbox = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(GOOGLE_IMAP_SERVER, '993') password = getpass.getpass(prompt="Enter your Google password: ") mailbox.login(username, password) mailbox.select('Inbox') ...Read now
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