Scraping email to make invoice
Michael Torrie
torriem at gmail.com
Mon Apr 25 13:16:47 EDT 2016
On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP.
Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure"
authentication. Otherwise you are required to set up a special,
application-specific password.
https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en
> Warning: don't use the basic imaplib. IMAP is a miserable protocol,
> and imap lib is too thin a wrapper. It'll make you bleed from the ears
> and wish you were dead. Use imapclient or imaplib2. I've used both
> (with Gmail's IMAP server), and IMO both are pretty good. Either one
> is miles ahead of plain imaplib.
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