Receive email

Question

How would i receive an email with no attachments and no subject to python as a string?

Answer 1

@Tolo, thank you for helping but it keeps on giving an EOF error on a line that doesent exist

Answer 2

When I copied it from my PC I lost the last 3 lines of code. That caused the error but I fixed it

Answer 3

thank you

Answer 4

for it to work i had to modify the b”{}”.format part to just b”10”

Answer 5

Did you try something like that?
https://code.sololearn.com/cNR6O6dPjJTZ/?ref=app

Answer 6

it is not printing even though the message in the inbox had nothing besides a couple of words
i removed the try and it gave an error for nullset where data was

Answer 7

Try to check if your inbox is named INBOX and if there are any mails
con.list() gives you all you folders you can select

Answer 8

ok

Answer 9

it doesent work on my end, can you test it with your account and tell me what might be wrong
im using imap.gmail.com for the url

Answer 10

For googlemail you need to change some settings so you can use a custom mail program as your python script

Answer 11

wait, so it cant run with gmail?
what can i change, i am making a gmail texting program that sends a message to gmail to a sms account like @vtex.com
it sends the message back to the gmail account

Answer 12

You can but you have to set some settings before
I am seraching for those

Answer 13

You have to turn less secure apps on

Answer 14

did that
i had to do it for the smtplib sending part

Answer 15

and it doesn't work?

Answer 16

no

Answer 17

i use my gmail account and password and the url imap.gmail.com

Answer 18

what value has your mailpos and how many mails are in your inbox?

Answer 19

0 but i cant find anything it relates to

Answer 20

con.select(folder)[1] should give you the number of emails in that folder