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(Chilkat2-Python) Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to FilesScan for emails with attachments and save attachments.
import sys import chilkat2 # 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.someMailServer.com") if (success != True): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Login success = imap.Login("myLogin","myPassword") if (success != True): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Select an IMAP mailbox success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox") if (success != True): 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 is a CkMessageSet messageSet = imap.Search("ALL",fetchUids) if (imap.LastMethodSuccess != True): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Fetch the email headers into a bundle object: # bundle is a CkEmailBundle bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet) if (imap.LastMethodSuccess != True): print(imap.LastErrorText) sys.exit() # Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments # to a sub-directory. for i in range(0,bundle.MessageCount): # email is a CkEmail email = bundle.GetEmail(i) # Does this email have attachments? # Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments # are not actually in the email object because # we only downloaded headers. # (Had we downloaded the full emails by # calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look # at the email object's NumAttachments property.) numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email) 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. # If the entire emails were downloaded by # calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders, # this would not be necessary. # 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 = email.GetHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid") uid = int(uidStr) # fullEmail is a CkEmail fullEmail = imap.FetchSingle(uid,True) if (imap.LastMethodSuccess == True): success = fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir") for j in range(0,numAttach): filename = imap.GetMailAttachFilename(email,j) print(filename) # Disconnect from the IMAP server. success = imap.Disconnect() |
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