20.10. imaplib — IMAP4 protocol client — Python v2.7.2 documentation. Source code: Lib/imaplib.py This module defines three classes, IMAP4, IMAP4_SSL and IMAP4_stream, which encapsulate a connection to an IMAP4 server and implement a large subset of the IMAP4rev1 client protocol as defined in RFC 2060. It is backward compatible with IMAP4 (RFC 1730) servers, but note that the STATUS command is not supported in IMAP4. Three classes are provided by the imaplib module, IMAP4 is the base class: class imaplib.IMAP4([host[, port]]) This class implements the actual IMAP4 protocol. The connection is created and protocol version (IMAP4 or IMAP4rev1) is determined when the instance is initialized. If host is not specified, '' (the local host) is used. Three exceptions are defined as attributes of the IMAP4 class: exception IMAP4.error Exception raised on any errors. Exception IMAP4.abort IMAP4 server errors cause this exception to be raised. Exception IMAP4.readonly This exception is raised when a writable mailbox has its status changed by the server.
New in version 2.3. Gmail APIs and Tools - Google Code. This document describes the IMAP extensions provided by Gmail and how they may be used by developers. This document assumes familiarity with the IMAP protocol. Overview Gmail provides a set of IMAP extensions to allow authors of IMAP clients provide a more Gmail-like experience through IMAP. These extensions may also be useful to those creating other types of integrations with Gmail, such as Gmail contextual gadgets. The extensions may be used when accessing Gmail through the standard IMAP protocol or when connecting via OAuth. Checking for the presence of extensions Gmail advertises its extension support in its response to the CAPABILITY command. Clients are strongly recommended to announce themselves with the IMAP ID command (RFC 2971), and include a contact address as a fallback in case changes to these extensions are required.
The following is an example handshake and use of the CAPABILITY command on the Gmail IMAP endpoint: Special-Use Extension of the LIST command XLIST is deprecated. Hottest 'imaplib' Answers. Imaplib - IMAP4 client library. Imaplib implements a client for communicating with Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) version 4 servers. The IMAP protocol defines a set of commands sent to the server and the responses delivered back to the client. Most of the commands are available as methods of the IMAP4 object used to communicate with the server. These examples discuss part of the IMAP protocol, but are by no means complete. Refer to RFC 3501 for complete details. Variations There are 3 client classes for communicating with servers using various mechanisms. Connecting to a Server There are two steps for establishing a connection with an IMAP server. Warning You probably do not want to store email passwords in clear text, but handling encryption will distract from the rest of the examples.
When run, open_connection() reads the configuration information from a file in your home directory, then opens the IMAP4_SSL connection and authenticates. Note Authentication Failure Example Configuration Listing Mailboxes. PYTHON. This is the third post in the article series “Playing With Python And Gmail”. This will be a tutorial on how to send mails using Python smtplib through Gmail SMTP. The smtplib module defines an SMTP client session object that can be used to send mail to any Internet machine with an SMTP or ESMTP listener daemon. [vinod@mercury ~]$ python Python 2.5.2 (r252:60911, Jan 24 2010, 14:53:14) [GCC 4.3.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import smtplib The first step is to create a SMTP connection to the server. The smtplib.SMTP class encapsulates an SMTP connection. Remember Google’s SMTP server is ‘smtp.gmail.com’ and the port is 587. Next we will identify ourself to an ESMTP server using EHLO.
Next we call SMTP.starttls function to put the SMTP connection in TLS (Transport Layer Security) mode. OK, now we are safe to login to the server using SMTP.login(user, password). We will cerate some SMTP headers before sending our mail. Sample code. Python — imaplib IMAP example with Gmail | Useful Stuff. I couldn’t find all that much information about IMAP on the web, other than the RFC3501. The IMAP protocol document is absoutely key to understanding the commands available, but let me skip attempting to explain and just lead by example where I can point out the common gotchas I ran into.
Let’s start by searching our inbox for all mail with the search function. Use the built in keyword “ALL” to get all results (documented in RFC3501). We’re going to extract the data we need from the response, then fetch the mail via the ID we just received. The imap search function returns a sequential id, meaning id 5 is the 5th email in your inbox. That means if a user deletes email 10, all emails above email 10 are now pointing to the wrong email. This is unacceptable. Luckily we can ask the imap server to return a UID (unique id) instead. The way this works is pretty simple: use the uid function, and pass in the string of the command in as the first argument.
Emails pretty much look like gibberish. Python Gmail IMAP : part 1 « Loose Morels. January 23, 2010 by verpa This is part 1 of my explanation of my gmail_imap (python) example library, please refer to parts 2, 3, 4. As I said before mocking Google for the lack of a Gmail API, we’re forced to turn to IMAP. This being an exercise in python, I turned to the standard library docs, and got no help … worse than no help, confusing ‘help’. Next up, I think we should repent and turn to Google to help us find example code that will show us the proper way to deal with imaplib.
To summarize the results … crap. Rough edges. Harsh, but fair. 01/30/09 – Also found, webpymail which seems to be a similar idea. To start with, we need a manager class to abstract away everything but our logical thoughts of what a mailbox system should be: a mailserver, a list of mailboxes, and a list of messages. Next up, the gmail_mailbox class. Like this: Like Loading...