Ordering Takeout
Recipe Difficulty: Easy
Python Version: N/A
Operating System: Any
Google Mail, popularly known as Gmail, is one of the more widely-used webmail services. Gmail accounts not only function as email addresses, but a gateway into the slew of other services that Google offers. In addition to providing access to mail through the web or Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) and Post Office Protocol (POP) mail protocols, Google has developed a system for the archival and acquisition of mail and other associated data stored in a Gmail account.
Getting started
This recipe, believe it or not, actually does not involve any Python and instead requires a browser and access to a Google account instead. The purpose of this recipe is to acquire the Google account mailbox in the MBOX format which we parse in the next recipe.
How to do it...
To initiate a Google Takeout, we follow these steps:
- Login to the Google account in question.
- Navigate to account settings and the Create Archive feature.
- Select...