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(Chilkat2-Python) Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to FilesScan for emails with attachments and save attachments. Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.
import sys import chilkat2 success = False # This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked. # See Global Unlock Sample for sample code. imap = chilkat2.Imap() # Connect to an IMAP server. # Use TLS imap.Ssl = True imap.Port = 993 success = imap.Connect("imap.example.com") if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Login success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword") if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Select an IMAP mailbox success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox") if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers. fetchUids = True # Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox messageSet = chilkat2.MessageSet() success = imap.QueryMbx("ALL",fetchUids,messageSet) if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Fetch the email headers into a bundle object: bundle = chilkat2.EmailBundle() headersOnly = True success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle) if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments # to a sub-directory. fullEmail = chilkat2.Email() emailHeader = chilkat2.Email() i = 0 while i < bundle.MessageCount : # The bundle contains email headers.. bundle.EmailAt(i,emailHeader) # Does this email have attachments? # Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments # are not actually in the email object because # we only downloaded headers. numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(emailHeader) if (numAttach > 0): # Download the entire email and save the # attachments. (Remember, we # need to download the entire email because # only the headers were previously downloaded. # The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when # headers are downloaded. This makes it possible # to get the UID from the email object. uidStr = emailHeader.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid") uid = int(uidStr) success = imap.FetchEmail(False,uid,True,fullEmail) if (success == False): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() success = fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir") for j in range(0,numAttach): filename = imap.GetMailAttachFilename(emailHeader,j) print(filename) i = i + 1 # Disconnect from the IMAP server. success = imap.Disconnect() |
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