How to fetch an email body using imaplib in python?

No... imaplib is a pretty good library, it's imap that's so unintelligible.

You may wish to check that t == 'OK', but data[0][1] works as expected for as much as I've used it.

Here's a quick example I use to extract signed certificates I've received by email, not bomb-proof, but suits my purposes:

import getpass, os, imaplib, emailfrom OpenSSL.crypto import load_certificate, FILETYPE_PEMdef getMsgs(servername="myimapserverfqdn"):  usernm = getpass.getuser()  passwd = getpass.getpass()  subject = 'Your SSL Certificate'  conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(servername)  conn.login(usernm,passwd)  conn.select('Inbox')  typ, data = conn.search(None,'(UNSEEN SUBJECT "%s")' % subject)  for num in data[0].split():    typ, data = conn.fetch(num,'(RFC822)')    msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])    typ, data = conn.store(num,'-FLAGS','\\Seen')    yield msgdef getAttachment(msg,check):  for part in msg.walk():    if part.get_content_type() == 'application/octet-stream':      if check(part.get_filename()):        return part.get_payload(decode=1)if __name__ == '__main__':  for msg in getMsgs():    payload = getAttachment(msg,lambda x: x.endswith('.pem'))    if not payload:      continue    try:      cert = load_certificate(FILETYPE_PEM,payload)    except:      cert = None    if cert:      cn = cert.get_subject().commonName      filename = "%s.pem" % cn      if not os.path.exists(filename):        open(filename,'w').write(payload)        print "Writing to %s" % filename      else:        print "%s already exists" % filename

The IMAPClient package is a fair bit easier to work with. From the description:

Easy-to-use, Pythonic and complete IMAP client library.

Try my package:https://pypi.org/project/imap-tools/

example:

from imap_tools import MailBox# get list of email bodies from INBOX folderwith MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'password', 'INBOX') as mailbox:    bodies = [msg.text or msg.html for msg in mailbox.fetch()]

Features:

• Parsed email message attributes
• Query builder for searching emails
• Work with emails in folders (copy, delete, flag, move, append)
• Work with mailbox folders (list, set, get, create, exists, rename, delete, status)
• No dependencies