printing - How can I extract only the email body with Python using IMAP? -

i relatively new programming , python, think have done ok far. code have, , works fine, except gets entire message in mime format. want text body of unread emails, can't quite figure out how strip out of formatting , header info. if send basic email using smtp python script made works fine, , prints body, if send email using outlook prints bunch of garbage. appreciated.

client = imaplib.imap4_ssl(popserver)  client.login(user, password) client.select('inbox') status, email_ids = client.search(none, '(unseen subject "%s")' % printsubject) print email_ids client.store(email_ids[0].replace(' ',','),'+flags','\seen') email in get_emails(email_ids): 

get_emails()

    def get_emails(email_ids):         data = []         e_id in email_ids[0].split():             _, response = client.fetch(e_id, '(uid body[text])')             data.append(response[0][1])         return data 

sounds you're looking email package:

email package provides standard parser understands email document structures, including mime documents. can pass parser string or file object, , parser return root message instance of object structure. simple, non-mime messages payload of root object string containing text of message. mime messages, root object return true is_multipart() method, , subparts can accessed via get_payload() , walk() methods.