Question

I’ve been trying to use ‘import poplib’ to access gmail, since I have Pop turned on in settings- but how do I actually then check the message for its ‘from’ address and then run something based on it? Also, what would be the command to strip the ‘body’ text from the message?

Answer 1

Here is how you can get subject and sender of each message in your GMail inbox using imaplib.

import imaplib
from email.parser import HeaderParser

conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
conn.login('[e-mail]', 'password')

# Select the mail box
status, messages = conn.select('INBOX')

if status != "OK":
    print "Incorrect mail box"
    exit()

if int(messages[0]) > 0:

    for message_number in range(1,int(messages[0])+1):  
        data = conn.fetch(message_number, '(BODY[HEADER])')
        parser = HeaderParser()
        msg = parser.parsestr(data[1][0][1])
        print "Subject: %s" % msg['subject']
        print "From: %s" % msg['from']

You will probably need more information. Start from the official imaplib documentation.