import imaplib
import email
print('imported')

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com',993)

user = 'xxxxxx@gmail.com'
pwd = 'xxxxx'

mail.login(user,pwd)
print('successfully logged in')
mail.list()
print(mail.list())
print('selecting inbox')

mail.select('INBOX')
print('inbox selected')

# selecting all items / emails
result, data = mail.uid('search', None, "ALL")

# transforming tuple into list / splitting them

inbox_item_list = data[0].split()

inbox_item_list

result2, email_data = mail.uid('fetch', inbox_item_list, '(RFC822)')

# using regex to search for emails?
# safe results into csv