I want to parse some emails from a user ‘s inbox but when I do:
typ, msg_data = imap_conn.fetch(uid, '(RFC822)')
It marks the email as SEEN or read. This is not the desired functionality. Do you know how can I keep the email at its previous stare either SEEN or NOT SEEN?
Answers:
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Method 1
You might also set read_only to true when selecting the folder:
imap_conn.select('Inbox', readonly=True)
Method 2
The following should work:
typ, msg_data = imap_conn.fetch(uid, '(BODY.PEEK[HEADER])')
or BODY.PEEK[TEXT], etc.
Method 3
You can use (RFC822.PEEK) as the “message-parts” argument, according to RFC 1730 (I have not verified which servers actually implement that correctly, but it doesn’t seem hard for them to).
Method 4
You may use imap_tools package:
https://pypi.org/project/imap-tools/
from imap_tools import MailBox, Q
# get list of email subjects from INBOX folder
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('<a href="https://getridbug.com/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection" class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="3145544245715c50585d1f525e5c">[email protected]</a>', 'password') as mailbox:
# mark_seen=False - not mark emails as seen on fetch
subjects = [msg.subject for msg in mailbox.fetch(mark_seen=False)]
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