Downloading your Google email with POP3

You would like to download your Google (or virtually any other email provider's) email via the POP3 protocol.

Getting ready

To run this recipe, you should have an email account with Google or any other service provider.

How to do it...

Here, we attempt to download the first email message from a user's Google email account. The username is supplied from a command line, but the password is kept secret and not passed from the command line. This is rather entered while the script is running and kept hidden from display.

Listing 5.4 shows how to download our Google email via POP3 as follows:

#!/usr/bin/env python 
# Python Network Programming Cookbook, Second Edition -- Chapter - 5 
# This program is optimized for Python 2.7.12 and Python 3.5.2. 
# It may run on any other version with/without modifications. 
 
import argparse 
import getpass 
import poplib 
 
GOOGLE_POP3_SERVER = 'pop.googlemail.com' 
 
def download_email(username):  
    mailbox = poplib.POP3_SSL...