Python IMAP: =?utf-8?Q? in subject string

Question

I am displaying new email with IMAP, and everything looks fine, except for one message subject shows as:

=?utf-8?Q?Subject?=

How ca

Answer 1

High level IMAP lib may be useful here: imap_tools

from imap_tools import MailBox, AND

# get list of email subjects from INBOX folder
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'pwd', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
    subjects = [msg.subject for msg in mailbox.fetch()]

• Parsed email message attributes
• Query builder for searching emails
• Actions with emails: copy, delete, flag, move, seen
• Actions with folders: list, set, get, create, exists, rename, delete, status
• No dependencies