API Summary

Grab

pymmails.EmailMessage (self, policy = Compat32())

overloads the message to class to add some functionalities such as a display using HTML

as_bytes (self)

converts the mail into a binary string

as_string (self, unixfrom = False, maxheaderlen = None, policy = None)

Converts the mail into a string.

call_decode_header (st, is_email = False)

create_from_bytes (b)

Creates an instance of EmailMessage from a binary string (bytes) (see as_bytes).

decode_header (self, field, st)

decode a string encoded in the header

default_filename (self)

define a default filename (no extension)

dump (self, render, location, attach_folder = ‘attachments’, fLOG = <function noLOG at 0x7fd6c5f6bdc0>, params)

Dumps a message using a call such as EmailMessageRenderer.

dump_attachments (self, attach_folder = ‘.’, buffer_write = None, metadata = True, fLOG = <function noLOG at 0x7fd6c5f6bdc0>)

Dumps the mail into a folder using HTML format. If the destination files already exists, it skips it. If an attachments already has the same name, it chooses another one if the attachment is different (otherwise it keeps it as it is).

enumerate_attachments (self)

enumerate the attachments as 4-uple (filename, content, message_id, content_id)

get_all_charsets (self, part = None)

returns all the charsets

get_date (self)

return a datetime object for the field Date

get_date_str (self)

return the date into a string

get_field (self, field)

get a field and cleans it

get_from (self)

returns a tuple (label, email address) or a list of groups from the regular expression

get_from_str (self)

return a string for the receivers

get_name (self, _fallback_get_from = True)

return the sender name of an email (if available)

get_nb_attachements (self)

return the number of attachments

get_to (self, cc = False, field = ‘to’)

return the receivers

get_to_str (self, cc = False, field = ‘to’)

return a string for the receivers

interpret_default_filename (name)

reverse engineer method default_filename

read_metadata (metafile)

read metadata assuming metafile contaings a json string

to_dict (self)

Returns all fields for an emails as a dictionary

pymmails.MailBoxImap (self, user, pwd, server, ssl = False, fLOG = <function noLOG at 0x7fd6c5f6bdc0>)

Defines a mail box with :epkg:`IMAP` interface.

enumerate_mails_in_folder (self, folder, skip_function = None, date = None, pattern = ‘ALL’, body = True)

Enumerates all mails in folder folder.

enumerate_search_person (self, person, folder, skip_function = None, date = None, max_dest = 5, body = True)

Enumerates all mails in folder folder from a user or sent to a user.

enumerate_search_subject (self, subject, folder, skip_function = None, date = None, max_dest = 5)

Enumerates all mails in folder folder with a subject verifying a regular expression.

folders (self)

Returns the list of folder of the mail box.

login (self)

login

logout (self)

logout

pymmails.grabber.pop_helper.retrieve_mails_pop (user, password, server, begin = 0, end = -1, fLOG = <function noLOG at 0x7fd6c5f6bdc0>)

retrieves all emails using POP service

Helpers

pymmails.helpers.iterator_prev_next (iter)

iterator on a sequence and returns another iterator with previous item, current item, next item,

Rendering

pymmails.render.renderer.Renderer (self, tmpl, css, style_table = ‘dataframe100l’, style_highlight = ‘dataframe100l_hl’, buffer_write = None, fLOG = <function noLOG at 0x7fd6c5f6bdc0>)

defines way to render an email

Send

pymmails.compose_email (fr, to, subject, body_html = None, body_text = None, attachements = None, cc = None, bcc = None)

Composes an email as a string.