Python implements mail reading

Python implements mail reading

In our daily work, we often need to read emails to get the latest notifications, receive files, etc. This article will introduce how to use Python to read emails.

1. Install related libraries

Before using Python to read mail, we need to install several related libraries, these libraries are:

• imaplib: used to connect and operate IMAP servers
• email: used to parse email content
• base64: used to decode attachments

These libraries can be installed with the following commands:

pip install imaplib email base64

2. Connect to email server

In Python, we can use the imaplib library to connect to the mailbox server to realize the function of receiving mail. To connect to the email server, you need to enter the email address and password, so you need to set these information in advance in the code.

import imaplib

email_address = 'your_email_address'
email_password = 'your_email_password'

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(