18.11.2 IMAP4 Example

Here is a minimal example (without error checking) that opens a mailbox and retrieves and prints all messages:

import getpass, imaplib
M = imaplib.IMAP4()
M.login(getpass.getuser(), getpass.getpass())
M.select()
typ, data = M.search(None, 'ALL')
for num in data[0].split():
 typ, data = M.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
 print 'Message %s\n%s\n' % (num, data[0][1])
M.close()
M.logout()

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