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I have been working on a script for work that downloads email via IMAP, so I use IMAPClient to do that and I can get the emails and see the content. Now I am trying to figure out how to get the attachment and format the data. The attachment is a Tab delimited file that is in txt format.

Here is as far as I get before getting stuck:

import pyzmail
from imapclient import IMAPClient

server = IMAPClient('mail.server.com', use_uid=True, ssl=False)
server.login('some.email@address.com', 'VerCrazyPassWord')
select_info = server.select_folder('Inbox')



server.search(['SINCE', '01-Oct-2018'])

rawMessage = server.fetch([157], ['BODY[]', 'FLAGS'])

print(rawMessage)

message = pyzmail.PyzMessage.factory(rawMessage[157][b'BODY[]'])

I was able to figure this out.

Use:

print(message.get_payload(1))

to get the second object which is the text file attachment.

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