import email
from email import policy
[docs]def find_encoding_info(txt):
"""
Find encoding information for a given text.
:param txt: The text to find encoding information for (str)
:return: A tuple containing the decoded subject and the encoding (tuple)
"""
info = email.header.decode_header(txt)
subject, encode = info[0]
return subject, encode
[docs]def read_email_contents(imap, num_emails=5):
"""
Read the email contents from an IMAP mailbox.
:param imap: An IMAP object connected to the mailbox (IMAP object)
:param num_emails: The number of email contents to read (int), default is 5
:return: A list of email content information (list)
"""
email_contents = []
imap.select("INBOX")
resp, data = imap.uid("search", None, "All")
all_email = data[0].split()
last_email = all_email[-num_emails:]
for mail in reversed(last_email):
result, data = imap.uid("fetch", mail, "(RFC822)")
raw_email = data[0][1]
email_message = email.message_from_bytes(raw_email, policy=policy.default)
subject, encode = find_encoding_info(email_message["Subject"])
message = ""
if email_message.is_multipart():
for part in email_message.get_payload():
if part.get_content_type() == "text/plain":
bytes = part.get_payload(decode=True)
encode = part.get_content_charset()
message = message + str(bytes, encode)
email_contents.append(
(
email_message["From"],
email_message["Sender"],
email_message["To"],
email_message["Date"],
subject,
message,
)
)
return email_contents