Python Library: imap-tools

with MailBox(EMAIL_SERVER).login(EMAIL_ACCOUNT, PASSWORD) as mailbox:
    for msg in mailbox.fetch(mark_seen=False, reverse=True, bulk=False): # get all emails one by one, from most recent, without changing read status

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Count Total Emails = 17702 emails found
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test.py finished in 13.5 minutes at 14:36:17.

with MailBox(EMAIL_SERVER).login(EMAIL_ACCOUNT, PASSWORD) as mailbox:
    for msg in mailbox.fetch(mark_seen=False, reverse=True, bulk=True): # get all emails in bulk, from most recent, without changing read status

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Count Total Emails = 17702
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test.py finished in 0.7 minutes at 14:42:23.

with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'pwd', initial_folder='INBOX') as mailbox:

    # COPY messages with uid in 23,27 from current folder to folder1
    mailbox.copy('23,27', 'folder1')

    # MOVE all messages from current folder to INBOX/folder2
    mailbox.move(mailbox.uids(), 'INBOX/folder2')

    # DELETE messages with 'cat' word in its html from current folder
    mailbox.delete([msg.uid for msg in mailbox.fetch() if 'cat' in msg.html])

    # FLAG unseen messages in current folder as \Seen, \Flagged and TAG1
    flags = (imap_tools.MailMessageFlags.SEEN, imap_tools.MailMessageFlags.FLAGGED, 'TAG1')
    mailbox.flag(mailbox.uids(AND(seen=False)), flags, True)

    # APPEND: add message to mailbox directly, to INBOX folder with \Seen flag and now date
    with open('/tmp/message.eml', 'rb') as f:
        msg = imap_tools.MailMessage.from_bytes(f.read())  # *or use bytes instead MailMessage
    mailbox.append(msg, 'INBOX', dt=None, flag_set=[imap_tools.MailMessageFlags.SEEN])