Scan for Emails with Attachments and Save Attachments to Files

Scan for emails with attachments and save attachments.

Download Chilkat Python Library

import sys
import chilkat

imap = chilkat.CkImap()

# Anything unlocks the component and begins a fully-functional 30-day trial.
success = imap.UnlockComponent("Anything for 30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# Connect to an IMAP server.
success = imap.Connect("mail.chilkatsoft.com")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# Login
success = imap.Login("admin@chilkatsoft.com","*myPassword5*")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# Select an IMAP mailbox
success = imap.SelectMailbox("Inbox")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# We can choose to fetch UIDs or sequence numbers.
fetchUids = True

# Get the message IDs of all the emails in the mailbox
messageSet = imap.Search("ALL",fetchUids)
if (messageSet == None ):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# Fetch the email headers into a bundle object:

bundle = imap.FetchHeaders(messageSet)
if (bundle == None ):

    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

# Scan for emails with attachments, and save the attachments
# to a sub-directory.

for i in range(0,bundle.get_MessageCount()):

    email = bundle.GetEmail(i)

    # Does this email have attachments?
    # Use GetMailNumAttach because the attachments
    # are not actually in the email object because
    # we only downloaded headers.
    # (Had we downloaded the full emails by
    # calling mailman.FetchBundle, we could look
    # at the email object's NumAttachments property.)
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)

    if (numAttach > 0):
        # Download the entire email and save the
        # attachments. (Remember, we
        # need to download the entire email because
        # only the headers were previously downloaded.
        # If the entire emails were downloaded by
        # calling FetchBundle instead of FetchHeaders,
        # this would not be necessary.

        # The ckx-imap-uid header field is added when
        # headers are downloaded.  This makes it possible
        # to get the UID from the email object.
        uidStr = email.getHeaderField("ckx-imap-uid")
        uid = int(uidStr)

        fullEmail = imap.FetchSingle(uid,True)
        if (not (fullEmail == None )):
            fullEmail.SaveAllAttachments("attachmentsDir")

        for j in range(0,numAttach):
            filename = imap.getMailAttachFilename(email,j)
            print filename

# Disconnect from the IMAP server.
imap.Disconnect()