mailsuite 1.9.0

A Python package for retrieving, parsing, and sending emails

mailsuite

A Python package for retrieving, parsing, and sending emails.

Features

• Simplified IMAP client
  • Retrieve email from any folder
  • Create new folders
  • Move messages to other folders
  • Delete messages
  • Monitor folders for new messages using the IMAP IDLE command
  • Always use / as the folder hierarchy separator, and convert to the server's hierarchy separator in the background
  • Always remove folder name characters that conflict with the server's hierarchy separators
  • Prepend the namespace to the folder path when required
  • Automatically reconnect when needed
  • Work around quirks in Gmail, Microsoft 365, Exchange, Dovecot, and DavMail
• Consistent email parsing
  • SHA256 hashes of attachments
  • Parsed Authentication-Results and DKIM-Signature headers
  • Can parse Microsoft Outlook .msg files
• Simplified email creation and sending
  • Easily add attachments, plain text, and HTML
  • Uses opportunistic encryption (STARTTLS) with SMTP by default

Working with .msg files

If you would like to be able to parse Microsoft Outlook .msg emails, you'll need to install the Email::Outlook::Message Perl module, which includes the msgconvert utility that is used to convert .msg files into the standard RFC 822 format. Ubuntu and Debian make this easy because they have a package for it, libemail-outlook-message-perl. On Fedora/RHEL/CentOS based distributions and macOS, you'll need to install Perlbrew.

Perlbrew installs a local copy of Perl within the user's home directory, similar to how Homebrew works (which is why the initial installation can take a while). That way, you don't need to use sudo to install Perl modules, and risk breaking your system's Perl installation in the process.

Once Perlbrew is installed, use cpan to install Email::Outlook::Message.