Reading Email

We don’t include JavaMail library in Ignition to read emails. However, you can use Python’s email library as of Ignition 7.4. Here is an example:[code]import poplib
from email import parser

pop_conn = poplib.POP3_SSL(‘pop.gmail.com’)
pop_conn.user(‘username’)
pop_conn.pass_(‘password’)
#Get messages from server:
messages = [pop_conn.retr(i) for i in range(1, len(pop_conn.list()[1]) + 1)]

Concat message pieces:

messages = ["\n".join(mssg[1]) for mssg in messages]
#Parse message intom an email object:
messages = [parser.Parser().parsestr(mssg) for mssg in messages]
for message in messages:
print message[‘subject’]
pop_conn.quit()[/code]