Here's a little python script that I wrote to monitor my IMAP mail
inbox. It works by checking periodically to see if any new unread
messages have appeared. I use upstart on an Ubuntu 8.04 server to keep
it running all the time.
In my case, I'm using the script to pass the new e-mail on to myself as
a cell phone text message.
The script is pasted in below and also in github:
git://github.com/dc25/imaptomsg.git
- Dave
#! /usr/bin/python
import imaplib, time
import os
from tempfile import NamedTemporaryFile
msgEmail = "" # text message email address here.
loginName = "" # imap login name ; gmail uses [EMAIL PROTECTED]
loginPassword = "" # imap password
def textMessage(msg):
filehandle = NamedTemporaryFile()
filehandle.write(msg)
filehandle.flush()
systemCmd = "mutt " + msgEmail + " > /dev/null 2>&1 < " + filehandle.name
os.system(systemCmd)
filehandle.close()
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
imap.login(loginName, loginPassword)
imap.select()
typ, msgnums = imap.search(None, 'UNSEEN')
unseen0 = set(msgnums[0].split())
while 1:
time.sleep(20)
imap.select()
typ, msgnums = imap.search(None, 'UNSEEN')
unseen1 = set(msgnums[0].split())
for n in unseen1 - unseen0:
t, hdr_from = imap.fetch(n, '(BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (FROM)])')
t, hdr_subject = imap.fetch(n, '(BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT)])')
t, text = imap.fetch(n, '(BODY.PEEK[TEXT])')
textMessage( hdr_from[0][1] + hdr_subject[0][1] + text[0][1])
unseen0 = unseen1
imap.close()
imap.logout()
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