Through IMAP, downloads email messages and attachments into a folder named as email_code.
Through imap, downloads email message and attachments into folder named as email_code.
For organisation based mailboxes:
-> Replace the URL with needed url, such as webmail.organisation.com
->Replace USERNAME , PASSWORD.
->pip install imap_tools
->Execute and search mail using subject.
->Folder will be formed on Desktop
For gmail:
-> Replace URL with imap.gmail.com
->Replace USERNAME, PASSWORD.
->pip install imap_tools
->Go to gmail.com > Settings gear at top right > See all Settings >Forwarding POP/IMAP >Enable IMAP.
->Go to https://myaccount.google.com/security turn on “Less Secure App Access” if feasible. (Warning: Potentially considered dangerous)
-> Execute the script
By default script uses “subject” to search for emails. To use some other way of accessing, please refer to https://pypi.org/project/imap-tools/#search-criteria \
Example: To download all the mails, mailbox.fetch(AND(all=True))
