Retrieving Email from a POP3 Server : SMTP « Network « Python Tutorial

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import poplib
import getpass

mServer = poplib.POP3('mail.sfcn.org')

mServer.user(getpass.getuser())
mServer.pass_(getpass.getpass())

numMessages = len(mServer.list()[1])

print "You have %d messages." % (numMessages)

for mList in range(numMessages) :
    for msg in mServer.retr(mList+1)[1]:
        if msg.startswith('Subject'):
            print msg
            break

mServer.quit()