[Tutor] Python IMAP library

[Cameron Simpson]

On 17Oct2021 17:40, Julius Hamilton <juliushamilton100 at gmail.com> wrote:
>Does anyone know what my options are for retrieving the email body of a
>specific email using this library?
>
>I’ll need a way to find the email. I guess I could search via subject
>header, if this library supports that.

Ths depends entirely on what you know. Email messages each have a unique 
message-id (in the Message-ID header line). IMAP servers also allocate 
messages persistent UIDs I believe.

But if all you've got is a subject line, then that's all you can search 
for - bearing in mind that many of the messages in an email thread will 
all have the same subject line.

>I believe I’ll use methods .fetch, .search and .select for this. I’ll 
>be researching this, unless about anybody can provide some code for 
>this.

You could look at the source code for hte getmail utility - it uses the 
imaplib module directly to do its work:

http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/

Cheers,
Cameron Simpson <cs at cskk.id.au>