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Read body from raw email

How can i read the body of any mail its not coming properly in this manner

I tried this :

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')


mail.login(email_user, email_pass)

mail.select('Inbox')

type, data = mail.search(None, 'ALL')
mail_ids = data[0]
id_list = mail_ids.split()

for num in data[0].split():
    typ, data = mail.fetch(num, '(RFC822)' )
    raw_email = data[0][1] # converts byte literal to string removing b''
    raw_email_string = raw_email.decode('utf-8')
    email_message = email.message_from_string(raw_email_string)
    subject = str(email_message).split("Subject: ", 1)[1].split("\nTo:", 1)[0]
    #body = str(email_message).split("body: ", 1)[1].split("\nTo:", 1)[0]
    print(email_message);

its showing enter image description here

Solution

  • If you simply want to parse the email and access the body, then consider using mail-parser. It's a simple mail-parser that takes as input a raw email and generates a parsed object. 

    import mailparser

mail = mailparser.parse_from_file(f)
mail = mailparser.parse_from_file_obj(fp)
mail = mailparser.parse_from_string(raw_mail)
mail = mailparser.parse_from_bytes(byte_mail)

    How to Use:

    mail.body #use this to access the body contents
mail.to