我建议使用
IMAPClient作为IMAP的更深奥的方面的论文.
以下片段将根据您的条件拉取消息,将消息字符串解析为email.message.Message实例并打印“Date”和“From”头.
from datetime import datetime, timedelta
import email
from imapclient import IMAPClient
HOST = 'imap.gmail.com'
USERNAME = 'username'
PASSWORD = 'password'
ssl = True
today = datetime.today()
cutoff = today - timedelta(days=5)
## Connect, login and select the INBOX
server = IMAPClient(HOST, use_uid=True, ssl=ssl)
server.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
select_info = server.select_folder('INBOX')
## Search for relevant messages
## see http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.5
messages = server.search(
['FROM "Alerts@foobank.com"', 'SINCE %s' % cutoff.strftime('%d-%b-%Y')])
response = server.fetch(messages, ['RFC822'])
for msgid, data in response.iteritems():
msg_string = data['RFC822']
msg = email.message_from_string(msg_string)
print 'ID %d: From: %s Date: %s' % (msgid, msg['From'], msg['date'])