how to copy emails into local directory?

[Akira Li]

luofeiyu <elearn2014 at gmail.com> writes:

> import imaplib,email
> user="xxxx"
> password="yyyy"
> con=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
> con.login(user,password)
> con.list()
> ('OK', [b'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"', b'(\\Noselect \\HasChildren)
> "/" "[Gma
> il]"', b'(\\HasNoChildren \\Junk) "/" "[Gmail]/&V4NXPpCuTvY-"',
> b'(\\HasNoChildr
> en \\Trash) "/" "[Gmail]/&XfJSIJZkkK5O9g-"', b'(\\HasNoChildren
> \\Flagged) "/" "
> [Gmail]/&XfJSoGYfaAc-"', b'(\\HasNoChildren \\Sent) "/"
> "[Gmail]/&XfJT0ZCuTvY-"'
> , b'(\\HasNoChildren \\All) "/" "[Gmail]/&YkBnCZCuTvY-"',
> b'(\\HasNoChildren \\D
> rafts) "/" "[Gmail]/&g0l6Pw-"', b'(\\HasNoChildren \\Important) "/"
> "[Gmail]/&kc
> 2JgQ-"'])
>
> Now, i want to  copy all the emails in the gmailbox of
> "[Gmail]/&kc2JgQ-"  (the important mailbox in my gmail"
> into local directory  "g:\emails",how can i do that in python code?

You could try an already-made application something like *gmvault*
instead of implementing the functionality from scratch on top of
imaplib. It is easy [1] to create a version that can perform the backup in
ideal conditions but it is much harder to take into account all nuances
to make it reliable.

[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/348630/how-can-i-download-all-emails-with-attachments-from-gmail


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Akira