IMAP
Connect Pipedream to any IMAP email provider to trigger custom workflows.
Integrate the IMAP API with the Python API
Setup the IMAP API trigger to run a workflow which integrates with the Python API. Pipedream's integration platform allows you to integrate IMAP and Python remarkably fast. Free for developers.
Popular IMAP and Python Actions#
Write Python and use any of the 350k+ PyPi packages available. Refer to the Pipedream Python docs to learn more.
Overview of IMAP#
The Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) is a mail protocol used for
accessing email on a remote web server.
IMAP provides a way to access email stored on a server, allowing you to read,
write, and delete emails from your account.
IMAP is a popular protocol for accessing email, and is supported by most email
providers.
Here are some things you can build using the IMAP API:
- A web-based email client
- A desktop email client
- A mobile email client
- A command-line email client
- A script to automatically delete old emails
- A script to automatically forward emails to another address
- A script to automatically save attachments to your computer
Connect IMAP#
import { once } from "events";
import imaps from "imap-simple";
import cycle from "cycle";
export default defineComponent({
props: {
imap: {
type: "app",
app: "imap",
}
},
async run({steps, $}) {
const { host, port, email, password } = this.imap.$auth;
const connection = await imaps.connect({
imap: {
host,
port,
user: email,
password,
tls: true,
tlsOptions: { servername: host },
authTimeout: 3000
},
});
const boxes = await connection.getBoxes();
// Filter out circular references to parents
const filteredBoxes = cycle.decycle(boxes);
$.export("results", filteredBoxes);
connection.end();
await once(connection.imap, "end");
},
})Overview of Python#
Python API on Pipedream offers developers to build or automate a variety of
tasks from their web and cloud apps. With the Python API, users are able to
create comprehensive and flexible scripts, compose and manage environment
variables, and configure resources to perform a range of functions.
By using Pipedream, you can easily:
- Create automated workflows that run on a specific schedule
- Compose workflows across various apps and services
- React to events in cloud services or form data
- Automatically create content and notifications
- Construct classifications and predictions
- Analyze and react to sentiment, sentiment analysis and sentiment score
- Connect backends to the frontend with serverless functions
- Work with files and databases
- Perform web requests and fetch data
- Integrate third-party APIs into your apps
- Orchestrate data processing tasks and pipelines
- Create powerful application APIs with authentication and authorization
- Design CI/CD pipelines and Continuous Delivery services
- Connect databases like MongoDB and MySQL
- Monitor connections and events
- Generate alerts and notifications for corresponding events
Connect Python#
def handler(pd: "pipedream"):
# Reference data from previous steps
print(pd.steps["trigger"]["context"]["id"])
# Return data for use in future steps
return {"foo": {"test":True}}