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get number of unread emails + email text - Pedroski55 - Oct-04-2018
I am looking at using Python to access email.
Following this code I was surprised to find, it worked first time!
I am trying to save paper. What I want to do is get the actual text from the email and mark it.
On the this page he says:
"The message body can be obtained by calling msg.get_payload(), which will return the payload data as a string (if the message is not multi-part). "
Is this the best way to get the email text?
What module does msg.get_payload() belong to?
I need to know how many unread messages I have. How can I get that? (Something like: unread = number of unread messages)
Then I want to save each text in a for loop: (something like this, I've got to try it out first, don't laugh!)
for i in range(0, unread):
saveFileName = str(i) + emailText
open(saveFileName + '.txt', "w")
message = msg.get_payload()
saveFileName.write(message)
saveFileName.close
RE: get number of unread emails + email text - Larz60+ - Oct-04-2018
msg is a variable that holds current message (in the code on page https://gist.github.com/robulouski/7441883)
if you look at the code of the page you reference, you will see:
msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])as you can see, it holds result of calling method message_from_string from class email (which you import)
so package name is email and msg.get_payload() should be visible in that code.
RE: get number of unread emails + email text - Pedroski55 - Oct-04-2018
Thanks!
I haven't really got my head around this yet.
Is there a way to only look at unread messages, or will I have to empty the INBOX before I try this?
RE: get number of unread emails + email text - Larz60+ - Oct-04-2018
Sorry, can't help here, I haven't used this package.