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I am trying to use python's imaplib to create an email and send it to a mailbox with specific name, e.g. INBOX. Anyone has some great suggestion :).
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Use Python's built-in smtplib library to send basic emails. Send emails with HTML content and attachments using the email package. Send multiple personalized emails using a CSV file with contact data. Use the Yagmail package to send email through your Gmail account using only a few lines of code.
Python's client side library called imaplib is used for accessing emails over imap protocol. IMAP stands for Internet Mail Access Protocol. It was first proposed in 1986. Key Points: IMAP allows the client program to manipulate the e-mail message on the server without downloading them on the local computer.
IMAP (Internet Messaging Access Protocol) With IMAP accounts, messages are stored in a remote server. Users can log in via multiple email clients on computers or mobile device and read the same messages.
The IMAP protocol is not designed to send emails. It is designed to manipulate mailboxes.
To create an email and send it you can use SMTP, as in smtplib.
To move an email that is already in a mailbox from one folder to another, you can copy the mail to the needed folder and delete it from the old one using uid, as in the answer here.
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You can use Python's built-in imaplib module and the append() command to append a mail message to an IMAP folder:
import imaplib
from email.message import Message
from time import time
connection = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(HOSTNAME)
connection.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
new_message = Message()
new_message["From"] = "[email protected]"
new_message["Subject"] = "My new mail."
new_message.set_payload("This is my message.")
connection.append('INBOX', '', imaplib.Time2Internaldate(time()), str(new_message).encode('utf-8'))
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