How do I print multiple email bodies with python imap?

Question

I\'m very new at coding and this is my first real attempt to do anything like this. I want to print out multiple email bodies, that are at least two weeks old. (later on in

Answer 1

I think your problem is here:

for i in range(latest_email_uid, latest_email_uid-5, -1):
    result, data = mail.uid('fetch', i, '(RFC822)')
raw_email = data[0][1]

After the loop, data only contains the last email you iterate over. Instead, get a list of emails:

raw_emails = []
for i in range(latest_email_uid, latest_email_uid-5, -1):
    result, data = mail.uid('fetch', i, '(RFC822)')
    raw_emails.append(data[0][1])

You can now iterate over those:

for raw_email in raw_emails:
    email_message = email.message_from_string(raw_email)
    ...

(Note: you should follow PEP-0008 and put all import statements at the top - it makes it easier to read and understand the code, particularly as it grows.)

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Edit:

Your revision only prints once because you print after the for loop runs, not for each iteration. Indentation is important:

for raw_email in raw_emails:
    email_message = email.message_from_string(raw_email)
    print email_message.get_payload(decode=True) # note indentation