Mark outlook emails as read using Python!

[Pedroski55]

Well, many moons ago I wanted to get emails from students. This was for QQ mail, but I presume outlook works similarly.

You need to activate imap login and get and imap password from the email provider, if I remember correctly.

This did the trick, the last line of the function marks the emails as seen:

#! /usr/bin/python3

import sys
import imaplib
import getpass
import email
import email.header
import base64

def read(username, password, sender_of_interest=None):
    # Login to INBOX
    imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.qq.com", 993)
    imap.login(username, password)
    imap.select('INBOX')
    # Use search(), not status()
    # Print all unread messages from a certain sender of interest
    if sender_of_interest:
        status, response = imap.uid('search', None, 'UNSEEN', 'FROM {0}'.format(sender_of_interest))
    else:
        status, response = imap.uid('search', None, 'UNSEEN')
    if status == 'OK':
        unread_msg_nums = response[0].split()
    else:
        unread_msg_nums = []
    data_list = []
    for e_id in unread_msg_nums:
        data_dict = {}
        e_id = e_id.decode('utf-8')
        _, response = imap.uid('fetch', e_id, '(RFC822)')
        html = response[0][1].decode('utf-8')
        email_message = email.message_from_string(html)
        data_dict['mail_to'] = email_message['To']
        data_dict['mail_subject'] = email_message['Subject']
        data_dict['mail_from'] = email.utils.parseaddr(email_message['From'])
        data_dict['body'] = email_message.get_payload()[0].get_payload()
        data_list.append(data_dict)
    print(data_list)
    #print(data_dict['body'])
    #print('The length of data_dict[body] is ' + str(len(data_dict['body'])))
    #print(email_message)
    #print('This is data_dict[body][0] ' + str(data_dict['body'][0]))
    #print('This is ' + data_dict['body'][0])
    #encoded = 
    #emailText = base64.b64decode(encoded)
    #print(emailText)
    # Mark them as seen
    for e_id in unread_msg_nums:
        imap.store(e_id, '+FLAGS', '\Seen') # mark the unreads as seen
        
    return data_dict

print('Getting the email text bodiies ... ')
emailData = read('[email protected]', 'dfennzsnagameadf')
print('Got the data!') 
saveTextPath = '/home/pedro/getEmailtexts/emailTexts/'
nameOfFile = 'firstEmailText.txt'
theFile = open(pathToFiles + nameOfFile, 'w')
print('Write text to the file ...')
theFile.write(emailData['body'])
print('Save the file ... ')
theFile.close()

Maybe this will help!