Fetch Single Email by UID or Sequence Number

Assuming the UID is known, download a single email by UID from an IMAP mail server.

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("***","***")
if (success != True):
    print imap.lastErrorText()
    sys.exit()

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

uid = 2014
isUid = True

email = imap.FetchSingle(uid,isUid)
if (not (email == None )):

    #  Display the From and Subject
    print email.fromAddress()
    print email.subject()

    #  Display the Body property, which is the default body.
    #  If an email has an HTML body, the Body property contains
    #  the HTML source.  Otherwise it contains the plain-text
    #  body.
    print "---- EMAIL BODY ----"
    print email.body()
    print "--------------------"

    #  Display the recipients:

    for j in range(0,email.get_NumTo()):
        print email.getToName(j) + ", "\
             + email.getToAddr(j)

    for j in range(0,email.get_NumCC()):
        print email.getCcName(j) + ", "\
             + email.getCcAddr(j)

    #  Show the total size of the email, including body and attachments:
    print email.get_Size()

    #  When a full email is downloaded, we would use the
    #  email.NumAttachments property in conjunction with the
    #  email.GetMailAttach* methods.
    #  However, when an email object contains only the header,
    #  we need to access the attachment info differently:
    numAttach = imap.GetMailNumAttach(email)
    print str(numAttach)

    for j in range(0,numAttach):
        print imap.getMailAttachFilename(email,j)
        attachSize = imap.GetMailAttachSize(email,j)
        print "    size = " + str(attachSize)\
             + " bytes"

    print "--"

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