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Reading email in loop with python
import imaplib, email
import time
import sys
#=========================================
user = 'xyzxxxaxbxzx123@gmail.com'
password = 'xxx@123456'
imap_url = 'imap.gmail.com'
#==========================================
#=============[Reading email here..]===============================>>
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url, 993)
mail.login(user, password)
num_of_mail = 0
#=======================================================================================================>
while True:
#=======[Loader start here]=========>>
#=======================================================================================>>>
#if any email is not comming in bot email box then wait infinite time....
print("Waitting for website response...")
#------------------------------------------------->
# animation = ["10%", "20%", "30%", "40%", "50%", "60%", "70%", "80%", "90%", "100%"]
animation = ["[■□□□□□□□□□]", "[■■□□□□□□□□]", "[■■■□□□□□□□]", "[■■■■□□□□□□]", "[■■■■■□□□□□]", "[■■■■■■□□□□]", "[■■■■■■■□□□]", "[■■■■■■■■□□]", "[■■■■■■■■■□]", "[■■■■■■■■■■]"]
for i in range(len(animation)):
time.sleep(0.2)
sys.stdout.write("\r" + animation[i % len(animation)])
sys.stdout.flush()
print("\n")
#======[loader end]=================================================>
mail.select('INBOX')
typ, data = mail.search(None, "UNSEEN")
mail_ids = data[0]
id_list = mail_ids.split()
if len(id_list) > num_of_mail:
# ================================================================================>>
# 1st -> if any new comes than read that email store
f = open("test_1.txt", "w")
f.write("true")
f.close()
f = open("test_1.txt", "r")
website_response = f.read()
for i in reversed(id_list):
type, data = mail.fetch(i, '(RFC822)')
for response_part in data:
if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1].decode('utf-8', errors='ignore'))
num_of_mail = len(id_list)
# ========[condition here]==========================================================================================>>
if website_response == 'true':
# =====[Email reading here....]===========>>
# Connect to inbox
imap_server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host='imap.gmail.com')
imap_server.login('xyzxxxaxbxzx123@gmail.com', 'xxx@123456')
#============================================================
imap_server.select() # Default is `INBOX`
_, message_numbers_raw = imap_server.search(None, 'ALL')
for message_number in message_numbers_raw[0].split():
_, msg = imap_server.fetch(message_number, '(RFC822)')
x = msg[0][1]
#============================================================
f = open('mail_data_file.txt', 'w')
f.write(str(x))
f.close()
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import imaplib, email
import time
import sys
#=========================================
user = 'xyzxxxaxbxzx123@gmail.com'
password = 'xxx@123456'
imap_url = 'imap.gmail.com'
#==========================================
#=============[Reading email here..]===============================>>
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url, 993)
mail.login(user, password)
num_of_mail = 0
#=======================================================================================================>
while True:
#=======[Loader start here]=========>>
#=======================================================================================>>>
#if any email is not comming in bot email box then wait infinite time....
print("Waitting for website response...")
#------------------------------------------------->
# animation = ["10%", "20%", "30%", "40%", "50%", "60%", "70%", "80%", "90%", "100%"]
animation = ["[■□□□□□□□□□]", "[■■□□□□□□□□]", "[■■■□□□□□□□]", "[■■■■□□□□□□]", "[■■■■■□□□□□]", "[■■■■■■□□□□]", "[■■■■■■■□□□]", "[■■■■■■■■□□]", "[■■■■■■■■■□]", "[■■■■■■■■■■]"]
for i in range(len(animation)):
time.sleep(0.2)
sys.stdout.write("\r" + animation[i % len(animation)])
sys.stdout.flush()
print("\n")
#======[loader end]=================================================>
mail.select('INBOX')
typ, data = mail.search(None, "UNSEEN")
mail_ids = data[0]
id_list = mail_ids.split()
if len(id_list) > num_of_mail:
# ================================================================================>>
# 1st -> if any new comes than read that email store
f = open("test_1.txt", "w")
f.write("true")
f.close()
f = open("test_1.txt", "r")
website_response = f.read()
for i in reversed(id_list):
type, data = mail.fetch(i, '(RFC822)')

                 for response_part in data:
                        if isinstance(response_part, tuple):
                               msg = email.message_from_string(response_part[1].decode('utf-8', errors='ignore'))
          num_of_mail = len(id_list)
          # ========[condition here]==========================================================================================>>
          if website_response == 'true':

                 #=====[Email reading here....]===========>>
                 # Function to get email content part i.e its body part 
                 def get_body(msg): 
                 if msg.is_multipart(): 
                        return get_body(msg.get_payload(0)) 
                 else: 
                        return msg.get_payload(None, True)
                 #===========================================================
                 #Function to search for a key value pair  
                 def search(key, value, con):
                        result, data = con.search(None, key, '"{}"'.format(value)) 
                        return data
                 #===========================================================
                 # this is done to make SSL connnection with GMAIL 
                 con = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url)  
                 #===========================================================
                 # logging the user in 
                 con.login(user, password)  
                 #===========================================================
                 # calling function to check for email under this label 
                 con.select('Inbox')
                 #===========================================================
                 # fetching emails from this user "tu**h*****1@gmail.com" 
                 msgs = get_emails(search('FROM', 'MY_ANOTHER_GMAIL_ADDRESS', con)) 
                 #===========================================================
                 # Uncomment this to see what actually comes as data  
                 # print(msgs)
                 # Finding the required content from our msgs 
                 # User can make custom changes in this part to 
                 # fetch the required content he / she needs 
                 # printing them by the order they are displayed in your gmail  
                 for msg in msgs[::-1]:  
                 for sent in msg: 
                        if type(sent) is tuple:
                               #===========================================================
                               # encoding set as utf-8 
                               content = str(sent[1], 'utf-8')  
                               data = str(content) 
                        # Handling errors related to unicodenecode 
                        try:  
                               indexstart = data.find("ltr") 
                               data2 = data[indexstart + 5: len(data)] 
                               indexend = data2.find("</div>") 
                               #===========================================================
                               # printtng the required content which we need 
                               # to extract from our email i.e our body 
                               print(data2[0: indexend]) 
                               #===========================================================
                        except UnicodeEncodeError as e: 
                               pass
                        #============================================================
                        f = open('mail_data_file.txt', 'w')
                        f.write(str(x))
                        f.close()

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