"""Create a connection to Gmail and do something with the results References: http://www.voidynullness.net/blog/2013/07/25/gmail-email-with-python-via-imap/ and https://yuji.wordpress.com/2011/06/22/python-imaplib-imap-example-with-gmail/ Grabbed from : https://gist.github.com/abought/15a1e08705b121c1b7bd """ __author__ = 'mj' import email.parser import imaplib import getpass import sys import re import ssl from pprint import pprint as pp # User may want to change these parameters if running script as-is # Search folders, multiple directories can be given # TODO: A user will want to change this SEARCH_FOLDER = ['"Trash"', '"INBOX"'] DEFAULT_MAIL_SERVER = 'mail.antipode.net' # No user parameters below this line ADDR_PATTERN = re.compile("<(.+)>") # Finds email as def connect(user, pwd, server=DEFAULT_MAIL_SERVER): """Connect to [the specified] mail server. Return an open connection""" conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host=server, ssl_context=ssl.create_default_context()) try: conn.login(user, pwd) except imaplib.IMAP4.error: print("Failed to login") sys.exit(1) return conn def print_folders(conn): """Print a list of open mailbox folders""" for f in conn.list(): for i in f: print("\t", i) def get_mails_from_folder(conn, folder_name): """Fetch a specific folder (or label) from server""" typ, data = conn.select(mailbox=folder_name, readonly=True) if typ != 'OK': print("Could not open specified folder. Known labels:") print_folders(conn) return typ, data = conn.search(None, 'ALL') if typ != 'OK': print("Could not get mail list of folder: ", folder_name) return return data[0].split() def fetch_message(conn, msg_uid): """ Fetch a specific message uid (not sequential id!) from the given folder; return the parsed message. User must ensure that specified message ID exists in that folder. """ # TODO: Could we fetch just the envelope of the response to save bandwidth? typ, data = conn.fetch(msg_uid, '(RFC822)') if typ != 'OK': print("ERROR fetching message #", msg_uid) return return email.parser.BytesParser().parsebytes(data[0][1], headersonly=True) def get_recipients(msg): """Given a parsed message, extract and return recipient list""" recipients = [] addr_fields = ['From', 'To', 'Cc', 'Bcc', 'Reply-To', 'Sender'] for f in addr_fields: if msg[f] is None: continue # str conversion is needed for non-ascii chars rlist = ADDR_PATTERN.findall(str(msg[f])) recipients.extend(rlist) return recipients if __name__ == "__main__": username = input("Enter username: ") password = input("Enter password: ") # Connect mail_conn = connect(username, password) # show folders of mail account #print_folders(mail_conn) # Open folders and get list of email message uids all_recipients = [] for folder in SEARCH_FOLDER: # switch to folder for mail_id in get_mails_from_folder(mail_conn, folder): data = fetch_message(mail_conn, mail_id) recip_list = get_recipients(data) all_recipients.extend(recip_list) mail_conn.close() mail_conn.logout() # Very unsophisticated way of showing the recipient list print("List of all recipients:") print("------------") pp(all_recipients) print("\n\n List of all UNIQUE recipients:") print("-------------------------------") pp(set(all_recipients))