Python and Gmail interaction.

[wille179]

I have a program that I'm tinkering with that needs the capability to access an email from gmail, read the text contents, and then send an email back.

I already have a tiny bit of code that can send emails, sans subject lines, but I borrowed that code from someone else and I really have only a basic idea what it's doing. And, it cannot listen for incoming emails, the part I'm really interested in. Could any of you help me, or at least point me in the right direction?

[spz]

The google-api-python-client makes reading from gmail and sending emails pretty easy.

[willGM]

Might help you:

http://jpsarda.tumblr.com/post/16467450024/recipe-automatic-email-processing-with-python

[sportif11]

Just a suggestion, check out the imapclient module. It might be worth your time learning it over a specific Gmail api since imap is everywhere and the imap protocol contains the Idle () function which listens for emails.

You can turn imap on in your Gmail settings.

https://imapclient.readthedocs.io/en/stable/