Save your emails to file (both content and attachments)

email-archiver.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
#! coding: utf-8 -*-
#
# email-archiver.py
#
# Copyright (C) 2015 - Francesco Frassinelli
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 
import os
import imaplib
import email
import email.utils
import datetime
import locale
 
storage = "/home/frafra/mail/"
 
conf = [
    [
        "utente@gmail.com",
        "password",
        "imap.gmail.com",
        "Archivio",
        None,
    ],
]
 
locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, "it_IT.UTF8")
 
def getMsgs(usernm, passwd, servername):
     conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(servername)
     conn.login(usernm,passwd)
     conn.select("Inbox")
     typ, data = conn.search(None, "ALL")
     for num in data[0].split():
          typ, data = conn.fetch(num, "(RFC822)")
          msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
          typ, data = conn.store(num, "-FLAGS", "\\Seen")
          yield msg
          typ, data = conn.store(num, "+FLAGS", "\\Deleted")
     conn.expunge()
 
def date_from_email(text):
    date_tuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(text)
    date_str = email.utils.mktime_tz(date_tuple)
    return datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(date_str)
    
if __name__ == "__main__":
    for usern, passwd, servername, path, rule in conf:
        os.chdir(os.path.join(storage, path))
        for msg in getMsgs(usern, passwd, servername):
            subject = msg["Subject"].strip()
            if rule:
                if subject.upper() != rule.upper():
                    continue
            date = date_from_email(msg["Date"]).strftime("%Y%m%d")
            base = "[%s - %s]" % (date, subject)
            for part in msg.walk():
                payload = part.get_payload(decode=1)
                filename = part.get_filename() or "Messaggio.txt"
                if payload:
                    filename = base + " " + filename
                    filename = filename.replace("/", "-")
                    if not os.path.exists(filename):
                        open(filename, "w").write(payload)
                    else:
                        print "%s already exists" % filename