Is it possible to access Gmail?

[Mark H]

Hello,

Is it possible to access email in a Gmail Account? Gmail seems to be a bit different as it uses OAuth with IMAP (xoauth). A script here will get the access token and secret. Would I have to implement a new backend or would the google backend do with maybe a GOOGLE_OAUTH_EXTRA_SCOPE setting?

Mark

[Phoebe Bright]

Just implemented a tool to process gmail accounts found it pretty easy.  Here is the code I used:

    import imaplib

   username = "email address"

    password = "123"

    imap_server = 'imap.gmail.com'

    conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_server)

    try:

        (retcode, capabilities) = conn.login(username, password)

    except:

        print sys.exc_info()[1], "failed to login as %s" % username

        sys.exit(1)

    conn.select() # Select inbox or default namespace

    '''

    alternative to default inbox

      #print conn.list()  # see list of possible boxes

        conn.select("[Gmail]/Sent Mail", readonly=1)

    '''

    (retcode, messages) = conn.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')

    if retcode == 'OK' and messages[0] > '':

        for num in messages[0].split(' '):

            print 'Processing :', num

            typ, data = conn.fetch(num,'(RFC822)')

            msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])

            sender = email.utils.parseaddr(msg['From'])

            recipient = email.utils.parseaddr(msg['To'])

            from_email = extract_email(sender)

            to_email = extract_email(recipient)

            subject = msg['Subject']

            body = get_body(msg.get_payload())

            message, created = Message.objects.get_or_create(mail_id =  msg['Message-ID'])

            if created or not message['subject']:

                message.subject = subject

                message.body = body

                message.from_email = from_email

                message.to_email = to_email

                message.mail_date = localtime(dateutil.parser.parse(msg["Date"]))

                message.save()

            # mark as seen if item was created ok

            #if result['app_item_id'] > 0:

            #    typ, data = conn.store(num,'-FLAGS','\\Seen')

    else:

        print "Nothing to process"

    conn.close()

A Later version used uid instead of sequential numbering, returning both a unique message id and thread id

                #https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions?csw=1

                typ, data = conn.uid('fetch', uid,'(RFC822 X-GM-MSGID X-GM-THRID)')

                # this is only available for gmail and assumes data always returned in similar order

                # string for data[0][0] = '1 (X-GM-THRID 1444702053679861808 X-GM-MSGID 1444702053679861808 UID 1 RFC822 {724}'

                idlist = data[0][0][3:].split(' ')

                id = {}

                id[idlist[0]] = idlist[1]

                id[idlist[2]] = idlist[3]

                id[idlist[4]] = idlist[5]

Hope this helps.

Phoebe.

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[Matías Aguirre]

Never tried it but this doc seems to explain how to implement it:
https://developers.google.com/gmail/xoauth2_protocol It seems that you can use
OAuth2 with https://mail.google.com/ as scope.

Excerpts from Mark H's message of 2013-08-30 08:18:58 -0300:

> Hello,
>
> Is it possible to access email in a Gmail Account? Gmail seems to be a bit
> different as it uses OAuth with IMAP (xoauth). A script here

> <http://code.google.com/p/google-mail-xoauth-tools/wiki/XoauthDotPyRunThrough>will

> get the access token and secret. Would I have to implement a new backend or
> would the google backend do with maybe a GOOGLE_OAUTH_EXTRA_SCOPE setting?
>
> Mark
>

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[Mark H]

Thanks for that Phoebe.

Here's how you would access a Gmail account with OAuth:

import oauth2 as oauth # pip install python-oauth2
import oauth2.clients.imap as imaplib

# GOOGLE_CONSUMER_KEY and GOOGLE_CONSUMER_SECRET can be 'anonymous' or you can register an app at https://code.google.com/apis/console
consumer = oauth.Consumer(GOOGLE_CONSUMER_KEY, GOOGLE_CONSUMER_SECRET)

# To get a token and secret, download and run the script here http://code.google.com/p/google-mail-xoauth-tools/wiki/XoauthDotPyRunThrough
token = oauth.Token(OAUTH_TOKEN, OAUTH_TOKEN_SECRET)

# EMAIL is the email account you want to access
url = 'https://mail.google.com/mail/b/%s/imap/' % EMAIL

conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.googlemail.com')
conn.debug = 4 # set to the desired debug level
conn.authenticate(url, consumer, token)
conn.select('INBOX')

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[Mark H]

Thanks for that Matias.

IMAP support in the python-oauth2 package seems to only support OAuth 1 - it expects a token and secret. I can get it working if I use the Google xoauth script to get the token and secret but I can't get it working with google-oauth in django_social_auth. I would prefer not to have to do IMAP manually.

[Mark H]

I got OAuth2/IMAP (xoauth2) working with the help of Stack Overflow:

settings.py:

GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID  = '' # Fill in your client id
GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET  = '' # fill in your client secret
GOOGLE_OAUTH_EXTRA_SCOPE = ['https://mail.google.com/']

accessing email:

import imaplib

access_token = social_user.extra_data.get('access_token')
auth_string = 'user=%s\1auth=Bearer %s\1\1' % (social_user.uid, access_token)
conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
conn.debug = 4
conn.authenticate('XOAUTH2', lambda x: auth_string)
conn.select('INBOX')

[Great Avenger Singh]

On Sunday, 1 September 2013 12:08:39 UTC+5:30, Mark H wrote:

I got OAuth2/IMAP (xoauth2) working with the help of Stack Overflow:

settings.py:

GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID  = '' # Fill in your client id
GOOGLE_OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET  = '' # fill in your client secret
GOOGLE_OAUTH_EXTRA_SCOPE = ['https://mail.google.com/']

accessing email:

import imaplib

access_token = social_user.extra_data.get('access_token')
auth_string = 'user=%s\1auth=Bearer %s\1\1' % (social_user.uid, access_token)
conn = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
conn.debug = 4
conn.authenticate('XOAUTH2', lambda x: auth_string)
conn.select('INBOX')

Are you using above code in Django Application?

Using the Python-Social-Auth Example I am able to see how the user is being authenticated using Oauth2. I want to access Inbox and SentBox of Gmail user. Can you tell how it could be possible with Django+Python Social Auth?