In this section we get to know about how to download selected emails from Gmail. One can export all Gmail emails or only download multiple Gmail emails by following the procedure discussed in the above Video.
All the emails in your Gmail account are available for download via IMAP and POP. Now, Gmail allows you to export and back up your Gmail data without needing to turn to third-party software and arcane workarounds—by downloading the data as mbox files. Doing so is dead-simple: Just head to Google’s data download page, sign into your account, and look for the new Gmail entries after clicking Create an archive.
When your archive is created by using one of these options, Google will email you a link to its location. Depending on the amount of information in your account, this process could take a few minutes or several hours. Most people get the link to their archive the same day that they request it.
The email storage format used for organizing email messages is a single text file called an mbox file. It saves messages in a concentrated format in which each message is stored after another, starting with the From header; originally used by Unix hosts but now supported by other email applications, including Outlook and Apple Mail.
How to Export Your Emails From Gmail as mbox Files
To download a copy of messages in your Gmail account in the mbox file format (which can be easily be used to create an archive to keep for your records or use the data in another service):.
If you only want to download select message(s), start in your Google Mail by applying a label, for example, 'messages to download,' to only the message(s) you want to download.
Go to https://takeout.google.com/settings/takeout.
Click Select None (Thunderbird can only store your emails, it cannot store this other data).
Scroll down to Mail, click on the gray X to the right
If you want to download only certain messages, click All Mail.
Check Select Labels.
Check the labels that tag the emails you want to download.
Do not changethe file type, click Create Archive.
The zip file will be sent via your selected delivery method (by default, you will get an email with a link to download the zip). It may not be instant; the more emails you are downloading, the longer it will take to create your archive
How do I connect to Gmail and determine which messages have attachments? I then want to download each attachment, printing out the Subject: and From: for each message as I process it.
anon
13 Answers
Hard one :-)
Wowww! That was something. ;-) But try the same in Java, just for fun!
By the way, I tested that in a shell, so some errors likely remain.
Enjoy
EDIT:
Because mail-box names can change from one country to another, I recommend doing m.list() and picking an item in it before m.select('the mailbox name') to avoid this error:
imaplib.error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED
e-satise-satis
I'm not an expert on Perl, but what I do know is that GMail supports IMAP and POP3, 2 protocols that are completely standard and allow you to do just that.
Maybe that helps you to get started.
Jeroen LandheerJeroen Landheer
untested
Make sure TOS allows such scripts otherwise you account will be suspended
There might be better options: GMail offline mode, Thunderbird + ExtractExtensions, GmailFS, Gmail Drive, etc.
Take a look at Mail::Webmail::Gmail:
GETTING ATTACHMENTS
There are two ways to get an attachment:
1 -> By sending a reference to a specific attachment returned by get_indv_email
2 -> Or by sending the attachment ID and message ID
( Returns a reference to a scalar that holds the data from the attachment. )
JDragoJDrago
Within gmail, you can filter on 'has:attachment', use it to identify the messages you should be getting when testing. Note this appears to give both messages with attached files (paperclip icon shown), as well as inline attached images (no paperclip shown).
There is no Gmail API, so IMAP or POP are your only real options. The JavaMail API may be of some assistance as well as this very terse article on downloading attachments from IMAP using Perl. Some previous questions here on SO may also help.
This PHP example may help too. Unfortunately from what I can see, there is no attachment information contained within the imap_header, so downloading the body is required to be able to see the X-Attachment-Id field. (someone please prove me wrong).
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Kevin HainesKevin Haines
If any of you have updated to python 3.3 I took the 2.7 script from HERE and updated it to 3.3. Also fixed some issues with the way gmail was returning the information.
Eric ThomasEric Thomas
The question is quite old and at that time Gmail API was not available. But now Google provides Gmail API to access IMAP. See Google's Gmail API here. Also see google-api-python-client on pypi.
Mitesh BudhabhattiMitesh Budhabhatti
jechavizjechaviz
Since Gmail supports the standard protocols POP and IMAP, any platform, tool, application, component, or API that provides the client side of either protocol should work.
I suggest doing a Google search for your favorite language/platform (e.g., 'python'), plus 'pop', plus 'imap', plus perhaps 'open source', plus perhaps 'download' or 'review', and see what you get for options.
There are numerous free applications and components, pick a few that seem worthy, check for reviews, then download and enjoy.
Rob WilliamsRob Williams
You should be aware of the fact that you need SSL to connect to GMail (both for POP3 and IMAP - this is of course true also for their SMTP-servers apart from port 25 but that's another story).
moster67moster67
Here's something I wrote to download my bank statements in Groovy (dynamic language for the Java Platform).
Install Gmail On Laptop
msanjaymsanjay
Have you taken a look at the GMail 3rd party add-ons at wikipedia?
In particular, PhpGmailDrive is an open source add-on that you may be able to use as-is, or perhaps study for inspiration?
toolkittoolkit
For Java, you will find G4J of use. It's a set of APIs to communicate with Google Mail via Java (the screenshot on the homepage is a demonstration email client built around this)