Post Office Protocol (POP3) is a popular email protocol that is used to fetch emails from the mail servers. To work with the email messages in the mailbox, you first need to establish a connection to the POP3 server. To achieve that, this article covers how to connect to a POP3 server from within a Python application. Furthermore, you will learn how to fetch email messages from a POP3 server programmatically in Python.
- Python Library to Fetch Emails from POP3 Server
- Connect to a POP3 Server in Python
- Fetch Emails from Mailbox on POP3 Server
Python Library to Fetch Emails from POP3 Server
To retrieve the emails from POP3 servers, we will use Aspose.Email for Python. It is a feature-rich email processing library that lets you create and send emails and work with popular email protocols. You can install the library from PyPI using the following command.
> pip install Aspose.Email-for-Python-via-NETConnect to a POP3 Server in Python
Before you access the mailbox on a POP3 server, you first need to establish a connection. The following are the steps to establish a connection with the POP3 server in Python.
- Create an instance of the Pop3Client class.
- Specify the host, username, and password using the Pop3Client object.
- Access the mailbox.
The following code sample shows how to connect to a POP3 server in Python.
Fetch Emails from POP3 Server in Python
Once you have established the connection with the POP3 server, you can read emails from the mailbox. The following are the steps to fetch emails from a POP3 server in Python.
- Establish the connection with the POP3 server using the Pop3Client class.
- Get count of messages using Pop3Client.get_message_count() method.
- Start a loop and fetch each message by index using Pop3Client.fetch_message() method.
- Read details of the message such as subject, from, body, etc.
The following code sample shows how to fetch emails from a POP3 server in Python.
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Conclusion
In this article, you have learned how to connect to a POP3 server in Python. Furthermore, you have seen how to fetch email messages from a POP3 server programmatically in Python. In addition, you can explore more about Aspose.Email using documentation. Also, you can share your questions or queries on our forum.
