Download an attachment from an IMAP email

[Kushal Kumaran]

On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 3:44 AM, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
> I have a few emails I am trying to download from my google account. I seem
> to be getting the message but each of these messages have an attachment. I
> don't understand what I ned to do to get and save the attachment to a local
> file.
> Here is what I have so far.
> M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(IMAP_SERVER, IMAP_PORT)
> rc, resp = M.login('xxxxx at xxxx', 'XXXXX')
> print rc, resp
> M.select('[Gmail]/All Mail')
> M.search(None, 'FROM', 'someone at logitech.com')
> #M.fetch(121, '(body[header.fields (subject)])')
> M.fetch(121, '(RFC822)')

Take a look at the email module.  The message_from_string() function
can convert the string representation of the email (as obtained by
M.fetch(121, '(RFC822)') into a message object.

-- 
regards,
kushal