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I’m trying to fetch some email info from gmail using imap like this
"(BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (subject from date)] X-GM-MSGID X-GM-LABELS X-GM-THRID)"
The problem is that it doesn’t work well with special and accented characters. For example,
Stéphane Maniaci
is rendered as
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?St=E9phane_Maniaci?=
How do I tell Gmail to return the strings with an encoding of my choice, say I want Charset to be UTF-8.
How to adjust that in the IMAP command I mentioned above?
Okay. I found out that email.utils can help out a lot here.
It has methods to parse date, emails, and any other information from imap messages.
It also has methods to decode imap strings. Like this