How to fetch an email body using imaplib in python?

Question

I\'d like to fetch the whole message from IMAP4 server. In python docs if found this bit of code that works:

>>> t, data = M.fetch(\'1\', \'(RFC822)         


        

Answer 1

You may use imap_tools package: https://pypi.org/project/imap-tools/

Features:

• Parsed email message attributes
• Query builder for searching emails
• Work with emails in folders (copy, delete, flag, move, seen)
• Work with mailbox folders (list, set, get, create, exists, rename, delete, status)
• No dependencies

example:

from imap_tools import MailBox

# get list of email bodies from INBOX folder
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'password', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
    bodies = [msg.text or msg.html for msg in mailbox.fetch()]