get number of unread emails + email text

[Pedroski55]

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