Day 9 - Send Email and Read Inbox with Python

Author: codingforentrepreneurs

tutorial-reference/Day 9/formatting.py

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+msg_template = """Hello {name},
+Thank you for joining {website}. We are very
+happy to have you with us.
+""" # .format(name="Justin", website='cfe.sh')
+
+def format_msg(my_name="Justin", my_website="cfe.sh"):
+ my_msg = msg_template.format(name=my_name, website=my_website)
+ return my_msg

tutorial-reference/Day 9/inbox.py

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+import imaplib
+import email
+
+host = 'imap.gmail.com'
+username = 'hungrypy@gmail.com'
+password = '<your password>'
+
+
+def get_inbox():
+ mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(host)
+ mail.login(username, password)
+ mail.select("inbox")
+ _, search_data = mail.search(None, 'UNSEEN')
+ my_message = []
+ for num in search_data[0].split():
+ email_data = {}
+ _, data = mail.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
+ # print(data[0])
+ _, b = data[0]
+ email_message = email.message_from_bytes(b)
+ for header in ['subject', 'to', 'from', 'date']:
+ print("{}: {}".format(header, email_message[header]))
+ email_data[header] = email_message[header]
+ for part in email_message.walk():
+ if part.get_content_type() == "text/plain":
+ body = part.get_payload(decode=True)
+ email_data['body'] = body.decode()
+ elif part.get_content_type() == "text/html":
+ html_body = part.get_payload(decode=True)
+ email_data['html_body'] = html_body.decode()
+ my_message.append(email_data)
+ return my_message
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ my_inbox = get_inbox()
+ print(my_inbox)
+# print(search_data)

tutorial-reference/Day 9/send.py

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+import sys
+import requests
+from datetime import datetime
+
+from formatting import format_msg
+from send_mail import send_mail
+
+def send(name, website=None, to_email=None, verbose=False):
+ assert to_email != None
+ if website != None:
+ msg = format_msg(my_name=name, my_website=website)
+ else:
+ msg = format_msg(my_name=name)
+ if verbose:
+ print(name, website, to_email)
+ # send the message
+ try:
+ send_mail(text=msg, to_emails=[to_email], html=None)
+ sent = True
+ except:
+ sent = False
+ return sent
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ print(sys.argv)
+ name = "Unknown"
+ if len(sys.argv) > 1:
+ name = sys.argv[1]
+ email = None
+ if len(sys.argv) > 2:
+ email = sys.argv[2]
+ response = send(name, to_email=email, verbose=True)
+ print(response)

tutorial-reference/Day 9/send_mail.py

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+import smtplib
+from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
+
+# environment variables
+username = 'hungrypy@gmail.com'
+password = 'LetsGetItStarted2020'
+
+def send_mail(text='Email Body', subject='Hello World', from_email='Hungry Py <hungrypy@gmail.com>', to_emails=None, html=None):
+ assert isinstance(to_emails, list)
+ msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
+ msg['From'] = from_email
+ msg['To'] = ", ".join(to_emails)
+ msg['Subject'] = subject
+ txt_part = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
+ msg.attach(txt_part)
+ if html != None:
+ html_part = MIMEText(html, 'html')
+ msg.attach(html_part)
+ msg_str = msg.as_string()
+ # login to my smtp server
+ server = smtplib.SMTP(host='smtp.gmail.com', port=587)
+ server.ehlo()
+ server.starttls()
+ server.login(username, password)
+ server.sendmail(from_email, to_emails, msg_str)
+ server.quit()
+ # with smtplib.SMTP() as server:
+ # server.login()
+ # pass