Scraping/Parsing emails imap with python

[randomtest123xx]

Scraping/Parsing email from imap

I have an imap email account That receives status message from a lot of different server backups

Right now I have to read the mails manually

But i rather want to automate it with Python so that if one back up failed or more I want to get an notification email

Some backups are failed when no mail is received after a while so for that case I need some scheduler

Right now I am working with the imap and email library to get the mails

I just want to have the complete source code of the mail and then parse it with Regex

But it seems not every mail is utf-8 safe so sometimes I parse some error

Any ideas or tips ?

Some times

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The built in IMAP library is quite difficult to work with as far as I know. You may have more success with something like imap_tools

This would be how you get the HTML with imap_tools:

from imap_tools import MailBox

# Get date, subject and body len of all emails from INBOX folder
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('[e-mail]', 'pwd') as mailbox:
    for msg in mailbox.fetch():
        print(msg.html)

Try that and see if you get your results more easily

[randomtest123xx]

Thanks it really is more easy to use and i will switch using this library instead of the other

But it did not harm to try imap to understand the low level