reading mails using python
email, gmail, imap, python
Solution
Three issues:
- The hostname is `imap.gmail.com`, not `imap4.gmail.com`
- The IMAP4 constructor takes two parameters: the host and port (not colon-separated)
- Gmail expects you to be talking SSL
So:
import imaplib
M = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com", 993)
Problem
how do i read mails from my mail box using python?? ``` import getpass, imaplib M = imaplib.IMAP4('IMAP4.gmail.com:993') M.login(getpass.getuser(), getpass.getpass()) M.select() typ, data = M.search(None, 'ALL') for num in data[0].split(): typ, data = M.fetch(num, '(RFC822)') print 'Message %s\n%s\n' % (num, data[0][1]) M.close() M.logout() ``` this is my code.. but when i execute this its throwing error: ``` Traceback (most recent call last): File "E:/jagdish/python progs/readmail.py", line 2, in <module> M = imaplib.IMAP4('IMAP4.gmail.com:993') File "C:\Python25\lib\imaplib.py", line 163, in __init__ self.open(host, port) File "C:\Python25\lib\imaplib.py", line 230, in open self.sock.connect((host, port)) File "<string>", line 1, in connect gaierror: (11001, 'getaddrinfo failed') ``` can anyone help me with this???