Python POP3 Example

It's really easy to use Python to read POP3 email.

#!/usr/bin/env python

import poplib

import email

import string

M = poplib.POP3('pop3.mail.host')

M.user('username')

M.pass_('password')

numMessages = len(M.list()[1])

for i in range(numMessages):

    print "=" * 40

    msg = M.retr(i+1)

    str = string.join(msg[1], "\n")

    mail = email.message_from_string(str)

    print "From:", mail["From"]

    print "Subject:", mail["Subject"]

    print "Date:", mail["Date"]

    if mail.is_multipart():

        print mail.get_payload(0).get_payload()

    else:

        print mail.get_payload()

M.quit()

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