Use python to check my email inboxes

Last month I came across an idea to check my email inboxes using python. I did some research on the web and try to imitate the great solutions from other coders. Because I am currently using IMAP service in my main email accounts, I chose to use the “imaplib” module to achieve my expectation. Here are the codes:

#!/usr/bin/python

#-*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import imaplib
import re


def gmail_checker(mailhost, username, password, flag = 0):
	i=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(mailhost)
	try:
		i.login(username, password)
		x, y=i.status('INBOX', '(MESSAGES UNSEEN)')
		messages=int(re.search('MESSAGES\s+(\d+)', y[0]).group(1))
		unseen=int(re.search('UNSEEN\s+(\d+)', y[0]).group(1))
		print "-------------------------------------------------"
		print "%s : total %i messages, %i unseen." % (username, messages, unseen)

				
	finally:
		i.logout()

if __name__ == '__main__':
	gmail_checker('imap.163.com', 'xxxx@163.com', 'xxxx', 1)
	gmail_checker('imap.qq.com','xxx@qq.com','xxx',1)
	gmail_checker('imap.gmail.com', 'xxx@gmail.com', 'xxx',1)
	gmail_checker('imap-mail.outlook.com', 'flyws1993@hotmail.com','xxx', 1)

#!/usr/bin/python

#-*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

import imaplib

import re

def gmail_checker(mailhost, username, password, flag = 0):

i=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(mailhost)

try:

i.login(username, password)

x, y=i.status('INBOX', '(MESSAGES UNSEEN)')

messages=int(re.search('MESSAGES\s+(\d+)', y[0]).group(1))

unseen=int(re.search('UNSEEN\s+(\d+)', y[0]).group(1))

print "-------------------------------------------------"

print "%s : total %i messages, %i unseen." % (username, messages, unseen)

finally:

i.logout()

if __name__ == '__main__':

gmail_checker('imap.163.com', 'xxxx@163.com', 'xxxx', 1)

gmail_checker('imap.qq.com','xxx@qq.com','xxx',1)

gmail_checker('imap.gmail.com', 'xxx@gmail.com', 'xxx',1)

gmail_checker('imap-mail.outlook.com', 'flyws1993@hotmail.com','xxx', 1)

I needed this to help me because in China is kind of difficult to check my Gmail account and I want a simpler way to check my inboxes without opening bulkier email clients.

7 Comments

icvephyna.science says:

2015年9月9日 at pm11:31

email – Is there a tool that can automatically check my inbox and perform an action? – Personal Productivity Stack Exchange

flyws says:

2015年9月15日 at pm1:24

Yeah I think so. However, it will take a lot of work. Are you meaning something like keyword matching? like natural language processing?

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