Part of the code I use to check gvoice SMS messages on my laptop and Raspberry Pi

gsms.py

import sqlite3 as lite

import imaplib
import email

# assume gtk is all good
import gnotify

# assume db has been setup correctly
def createtyrnidb():
    """msg.keys ['Delivered-To', 'Received', 'Return-Path', 'Received-SPF', 'Authentication-Results', 'Received', 'DKIM-Signature', 'MIME-Version', 'Received', 'References', 'Message-ID', 'Date', 'Subject', 'From', 'To', 'Content-Type']
    "First Last (SMS)" <12566610043.12565551212.7x9KSZ6JSG@txt.voice.google.com>
    SMS from First Last [(256) 555-1212]"""
    con = lite.connect('tyrni.db')
    with con:
        cur = con.cursor()
        cur.execute("CREATE TABLE SMS(Id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY, messageid varchar(255), Subject varchar(255),Body text") # sure, why not?

def getsms():
    totalsms = 0
    errorsms = 0
    con = lite.connect('tyrni.db')
    cur = con.cursor()
    # pull out all message-id values from the local db
    midrows = cur.execute('select messageid from sms;').fetchall()
    mids = map(lambda x:x[0],midrows)
    print 'mids are',mids
    M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
    M.login('shae.erisson@gmail.com', 'password')
    M.select()
    typ, data = M.search(None, 'SUBJECT', 'SMS') # Google Voice SMS email will have Subject starting with 'SMS'
    for num in data[0].split():
        totalsms += 1
        typ, data = M.fetch(num,'(RFC822)')
        msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
        # ignore message-id values we've already seen
        this_mid = msg['Message-ID']
        print 'checking',this_mid
        if not (msg['Message-ID'] in mids):
            print 'inserting',this_mid,msg['Subject']
            try:
                cur.execute("INSERT INTO SMS(messageid, subject, body)  VALUES(?, ?, ?);", (msg['Message-ID'],msg['Subject'],msg.get_payload())) # XXX is get_payload correct?
                gnotify.gnotify(msg['Subject'],msg.get_payload())
            except lite.InterfaceError, e:
                errorsms += 1
                print e,"good luck with that"
        else: print "we've already got",this_mid
    con.commit()
    print 'ok, latest messages loaded into the database'
    print totalsms,' total messages found and ',errorsms,'messages had errors when inserting to the db.'
    # Is this the right order?
    M.close()
    M.logout()


def vartest():
    con = lite.connect('tyrni.db')
    cur = con.cursor()
    midrows = cur.execute('select messageid from sms;').fetchall()
    mids = map(lambda x:x[0],midrows)
    print 'mids are',mids
    print "is 'test' in mids?"
    if 'test' in mids:
        print 'we found it!'
    else:
        print "You wish!"

if __name__ == '__main__':
    getsms()
    #vartest()