How do you access the raw message data of an email when using imap-tools?
Specifically so it can then be loaded into the email.message_from_bytes() function for forwarding?
from imap_tools import MailBox, AND
with MailBox('imap.gmail.com').login('asdf@gmail.com', '123456', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
# get unseen emails from INBOX folder
for msg in mailbox.fetch(AND(seen=False), mark_seen=False):
pass # get the raw data from msg
>Solution :
The raw message data for an email fetched with imap-tools can be accessed via the msg.obj property. To parse this into an email.message object, we can pass the raw data to email.message_from_bytes().
So the key is using msg.obj to get the raw message from imap-tools, and then load that into the email library.
from imap_tools import MailBox, AND
import email
with MailBox('imap.gmail.com').login('asdf@gmail.com', '123456', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
for msg in mailbox.fetch(AND(seen=False), mark_seen=False):
raw_email = msg.obj
email_message = email.message_from_bytes(raw_email)
# forward or process email_message here
I took the obj object because according to the official documentation it is " the email.message.Message: original object" I pasted you all valid field down below so you can chose if obj is the right fo ryou
for msg in mailbox.fetch(): # generator: imap_tools.MailMessage
msg.uid # str | None: '123'
msg.subject # str: 'some subject 你 привет'
msg.from_ # str: 'Bartölke@ya.ru'
msg.to # tuple: ('iam@goo.ru', 'friend@ya.ru', )
msg.cc # tuple: ('cc@mail.ru', )
msg.bcc # tuple: ('bcc@mail.ru', )
msg.reply_to # tuple: ('reply_to@mail.ru', )
msg.date # datetime.datetime: 1900-1-1 for unparsed, may be naive or with tzinfo
msg.date_str # str: original date - 'Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:26:59 +0500'
msg.text # str: 'Hello 你 Привет'
msg.html # str: '<b>Hello 你 Привет</b>'
msg.flags # tuple: ('\\Seen', '\\Flagged', 'ENCRYPTED')
msg.headers # dict: {'received': ('from 1.m.ru', 'from 2.m.ru'), 'anti-virus': ('Clean',)}
msg.size_rfc822 # int: 20664 bytes - size info from server (*useful with headers_only arg)
msg.size # int: 20377 bytes - size of received message
for att in msg.attachments: # list: imap_tools.MailAttachment
att.filename # str: 'cat.jpg'
att.payload # bytes: b'\xff\xd8\xff\xe0\'
att.content_id # str: 'part45.06020801.00060008@mail.ru'
att.content_type # str: 'image/jpeg'
att.content_disposition # str: 'inline'
att.part # email.message.Message: original object
att.size # int: 17361 bytes
msg.obj # email.message.Message: original object
msg.from_values # imap_tools.EmailAddress | None
msg.to_values # tuple: (imap_tools.EmailAddress,)
msg.cc_values # tuple: (imap_tools.EmailAddress,)
msg.bcc_values # tuple: (imap_tools.EmailAddress,)
msg.reply_to_values # tuple: (imap_tools.EmailAddress,)