POP3 and IMAP servers

In this section, you'll learn about receiving emails via POP and IMAP servers. Python offers the poplib and imaplib libraries for receiving emails via Python scripts.

Receiving email using the poplib library

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3. This standard protocol helps you receive emails from a remote server to our local machine. The main advantage of POP3 is that it allows us to download emails on to our local machine and read the downloaded emails offline.

The POP3 protocol works on two ports:

• Port 110: The default non-encrypted port
• Port 995: The encrypted port

Now, we'll see some examples. First, we'll see an example where we get a number of emails. For that, create...