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(CkPython) Process New Email by Scanning for SendersScan email and save application-selected emails to EML files with unique filenames. Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.0.0 or greater.
import sys import chilkat success = False # This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked. # See Global Unlock Sample for sample code. imap = chilkat.CkImap() # Connect to an IMAP server. # Use TLS imap.put_Ssl(True) imap.put_Port(993) success = imap.Connect("imap.someMailServer.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 # Fetch messages from the mailbox using a search criteria. # This example finds NEW emails: these are emails that have the RECENT flag set, but not the SEEN flag: messageSet = chilkat.CkMessageSet() success = imap.QueryMbx("NEW",fetchUids,messageSet) if (success == False): print(imap.lastErrorText()) sys.exit() # This example will download headers, and then download # the full email for those emails sent from a contact # in our database. # When downloading headers, each email object contains # (obviously) the headers, but the body will be missing. # Also, attachments will not be included. However, it is # possible to get information about the attachments # as well as the complete size of the email. bundle = chilkat.CkEmailBundle() headersOnly = True success = imap.FetchMsgSet(headersOnly,messageSet,bundle) if (success == False): print(imap.lastErrorText()) sys.exit() # Loop over the email objects... emailHeader = chilkat.CkEmail() fullEmail = chilkat.CkEmail() i = 0 numEmails = bundle.get_MessageCount() while i < numEmails : bundle.EmailAt(i,emailHeader) # The sender's email address and name are available # in the From, FromAddress, and FromName properties. # If the sender is "Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com", # then the From property will hold the entire string. # the FromName property contains"Chilkat Support", # and the FromAddress property contains "support@chilkatsoft.com" print(emailHeader.ck_from()) print(emailHeader.fromAddress()) print(emailHeader.fromName()) # Assume at this point your code checks to see if the sender # is one in your contacts database. If so, this is # the code you would write to download the entire # email and save it to a file. # 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() # You can use the GenerateFilename method to # generate a unique filename... filename = fullEmail.generateFilename() # SaveEml saves the entire email, including attachments. success = fullEmail.SaveEml(filename) print("--") i = i + 1 # Disconnect from the IMAP server. success = imap.Disconnect() |
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