def f(email_id, password): import imaplib, email, os user = email_id password = password imap_url = 'imap.gmail.com' arr =[] def get_body(mssg): if mssg.is_multipart(): return get_body(mssg.get_payload(0)) else: return mssg.get_payload(None, True) con = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url) con.login(user,password) totalmail = con.SELECT("INBOX") totalmail = totalmail[1][0] totalmail = str(totalmail) totalmail = int(totalmail[2:][:-1]) arr.append(str(totalmail)) con.select('INBOX') #TO loop in all mail #totalmail - last mail number # for i in range(totalmail, 1, -1): # result, data = con.fetch(str(i), '(RFC822)') result, data = con.fetch(str(totalmail), '(RFC822)') #latest mail raw = email.message_from_bytes(data[0][1]) # print(type(raw)) x = get_body(raw) email_body = data[0][1] for response_part in data: if isinstance(response_part, tuple): msg = email.message_from_bytes(response_part[1]) email_subject = msg['subject'] email_from = msg['from'] arr.append(email_from) arr.append(email_subject) arr.append(msg['date']) arr.append(x) # arr = [last_index, email_from, email_subject, email_date, email_body] return arr print(f("xxx@gmail.com", "######"))