Email.py

################
# Send emails
################

import smtplib
conn = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
conn.ehlo() #start the connection
conn.starttls() #start encryption before passing password
conn.login('[email protected]', 'password')
conn.sendmail('[email protected]', '[email protected]', 'Subject: so long...\n\n')
conn.quit()


################
# Read emails
################
import imapclient
conn = imapclient.IMAPClient('imap.gmail.com', ssl=True)
conn.login('[email protected]', 'password')
conn.select_folder('INBOX', readonly=True)

UIDs = conn.search(['SINCE 20-Aug-2015'])    #returns a list of unique ids of the emails we are filtering
rawMessage = conn.fetch([46465], ['BODY[]'

#to parse the raw message and get the single fields ot of the email
import pyzmail
message = pyzmail.PyzMessage.factory(rawMessage[46465][b'BODY[]'])
message.get_ subject()

message.get_addresses('from')
message.get_addresses('to')
message.get_addresses('bbc')

message.text_part #`the email can be text or html
mesasge.html_part
message.text_part.get_payload().decode('UTF-8')

conn.list_folders() #list all the directories of the email box


conn.select_folder('INBOX', readonly=False)
UIDs = conn.search(['ON 24-Aug-2015'])
conn.delete_messages(UIDs)