In a nutshell, an equal sign at the end of a line indicates a soft line break. An equal sign followed by two hexadecimal characters (0-9, A-F) encodes a single octet (byte). This encoding scheme is called “quoted printable” and is defined in section 6.7 of RFC 2045. See items (1) and (5), in particular. … Read more
You might also set read_only to true when selecting the folder: imap_conn.select(‘Inbox’, readonly=True)
No… imaplib is a pretty good library, it’s imap that’s so unintelligible. You may wish to check that t == ‘OK’, but data[0][1] works as expected for as much as I’ve used it. Here’s a quick example I use to extract signed certificates I’ve received by email, not bomb-proof, but suits my purposes: import getpass, … Read more
You could/should use the email.parser module to decode mail messages, for example (quick and dirty example!): from email.parser import FeedParser f = FeedParser() f.feed(“<insert mail message here, including all headers>”) rootMessage = f.close() # Now you can access the message and its submessages (if it’s multipart) print rootMessage.is_multipart() # Or check for errors print rootMessage.defects … Read more
You are trying to decode an object that is already decoded. You have a str, there is no need to decode from UTF-8 anymore. Simply drop the .decode(‘utf-8’) part: header_data = data[1][0][1] As for your fetch() call, you are explicitly asking for just the first message. Use a range if you want to retrieve more … Read more