In this article, we will look at how to fetch a fixed number of recently sent e-mails via a Gmail account using Python. The libraries used in this implementation include imaplib, email. You have to manually go and make IMAP access enabled by going into your Gmail account settings. After this only you could access your Gmail account without logging in the browser. In the setting page, enable this before running the script. 
Algorithm :
- Import the imaplib, email, webbrowser and os modules.
- Establish a imap connection with the Gmail account.
- Instantiate the username and password variables for the Gmail account.
- Login into the Gmail account
- Select the sent mails.
- Determine the number n of sent e-mails to be retrieved.
- Iterate the n e-mails and print the sender and the subject of the e-mail.
python3
# import the modulesimport imaplib import emailfrom email.header import decode_headerimport webbrowserimport os# establish connection with Gmailserver ="imap.gmail.com" imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(server)# instantiate the username and the passwordusername ="username@gmail.com" password ="********"# login into the gmail accountimap.login(username, password) # select the e-mailsres, messages = imap.select('"[Gmail]/Sent Mail"') # calculates the total number of sent messagesmessages = int(messages[0])# determine the number of e-mails to be fetchedn = 3# iterating over the e-mailsfor i in range(messages, messages - n, -1): res, msg = imap.fetch(str(i), "(RFC822)") for response in msg: if isinstance(response, tuple): msg = email.message_from_bytes(response[1]) # getting the sender's mail id From = msg["From"] # getting the subject of the sent mail subject = msg["Subject"] # printing the details print("From : ", From) print("subject : ", subject) |
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