Receive replies from Gmail with smtplib - Python
Ok, I am working on a type of system so that I can start operations on my computer with sms messages. I can get it to send the initial message:
import smtplib
fromAdd = 'GmailFrom'
toAdd = 'SMSTo'
msg = 'Options \nH - Help \nT - Terminal'
username = 'GMail'
password = 'Pass'
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com:587')
server.starttls()
server.login(username , password)
server.sendmail(fromAdd , toAdd , msg)
server.quit()
I just need to know how to wait for the reply or pull the reply from Gmail itself, then store it in a variable for later functions.
Answer
Instead of SMTP which is used for sending emails, you should use either POP3 or IMAP (the latter is preferable). Example of using SMTP (the code is not mine, see the url below for more info):
import imaplib
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('[email protected]', 'mypassword')
mail.list()
# Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.
result, data = mail.search(None, "ALL")
ids = data[0] # data is a list.
id_list = ids.split() # ids is a space separated string
latest_email_id = id_list[-1] # get the latest
result, data = mail.fetch(latest_email_id, "(RFC822)") # fetch the email body (RFC822) for the given ID
raw_email = data[0][1] # here's the body, which is raw text of the whole email
# including headers and alternate payloads
Shamelessly stolen from here