# Author: OMKAR PATHAK

# This script helps to read the latest emails and entieve the contents of the selected email

# First turn on this: https://myaccount.google.com/lesssecureapps?pli=1

import email, getpass, imaplib, os

detach_dir = '.' # directory where to save attachments (default: current)

# user = input("Enter your Gmail Username:")

pwd = getpass.getpass("Enter your Gmail Password: ")

# connecting to the gmail imap server

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")

mail.login('omkarpathak.comp@mmcoe.edu.in', pwd)

mail.list()

mail.select('INBOX') # Specify from where to retrieve the email

response, ids = mail.search(None, '(ALL)') # search all types of mails

ids = ids[0].split()

ids = ids[::-1] # getting latest emails first

i = 0

for emailid in ids:

i += 1

response, data = mail.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)") # fetching the mail

email_body = data[0][1] # getting the mail content

mailFetch = email.message_from_bytes(email_body) # parsing the mail content to get a mail object

#Check if any attachments at all

if mailFetch.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':

continue

mailFetch['Subject'] = mailFetch['Subject'].replace(r'=?utf-8?q?', '')

mailFetch['Subject'] = mailFetch['Subject'].replace('_', ' ')

# print(type(mailFetch['Subject']))

print ("["+mailFetch["From"]+"]:" + mailFetch['Subject'].replace('=?utf-8?q?', '').replace('_', ' ').replace('=3F?=', '?').replace('?=',''))

# we use walk to create a generator so we can iterate on the parts and forget about the recursive headach

for part in mailFetch.walk():

# multipart are just containers, so we skip them

if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':

continue

# is this part an attachment ?

if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:

continue

filename = mailFetch["From"] + "_hw1answer"

att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

#Check if its already there

if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :

# finally write the stuff

fp = open(att_path, 'wb')

fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))

fp.close()

if (i == 10): # Get only ten latest emails

break