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Fetching all senders' emails in imaplib

With this I get a list of email from particular senders:

import email
import imaplib
username = "TBD"
pw = "TBD"
suka = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
suka.login(username, pw)
suka.select("INBOX")
key = 'FROM'
value = 'TBD' 
_, data = suka.search(None, key, value)
mail_id_list = data[0].split()
msgs = []

But what if need to skip giving a sender "FROM", but want to get a list of just all messages in the inbox. Something like: key = 'FROM' value = any. I don't see such possibility in the lib docs, but suppose such a function should exist. Many thanks for any help.

Solution

  • You can simply use:

    _, data = suka.search(None, "ALL")

    Your full code will look like this:

    import email
import imaplib
username = "TBD"
pw = "TBD"
suka = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
suka.login(username, pw)
suka.select("INBOX")
_, data = suka.search(None, "ALL")
mail_id_list = data[0].split()
msgs = []

    Updated

    username = "TBD"
pw = "TBD"
suka = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
suka.login(username, pw)
suka.select("INBOX")

# Search for all messages in the inbox
_, data = suka.search(None, "ALL")
mail_id_list = data[0].split()

# Loop through the message IDs and retrieve the message contents
for mail_id in mail_id_list:
    _, message_data = suka.fetch(mail_id, "(RFC822)")
    message = email.message_from_bytes(message_data[0][1])
    msgs.append(message)