import email, getpass, imaplib, os, re, csv, zipfile, glob, threading

detach_dir = 'C:\directory' # directory where to save attachments (default: current)
user = ("username")
pwd = ("pass")

# connecting to the gmail imap server
m = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
m.login(user,pwd)
m.select("INBOX") # here you a can choose a mail box like INBOX instead
# use m.list() to get all the mailboxes

resp, items = m.search(None, "ALL") # you could filter using the IMAP rules here (check http://w...content-available-to-author-only...e.com/csharp/imap-search-critera.asp)
items = items[0].split() # getting the mails id

for emailid in items:
    resp, data = m.fetch(emailid, "(RFC822)") # fetching the mail, "`(RFC822)`" means "get the whole stuff", but you can ask for headers only, etc
    email_body = data[0][1] # getting the mail content
    mail = email.message_from_string(email_body) # parsing the mail content to get a mail object


    #Check if any attachments at all
    if mail.get_content_maintype() != 'multipart':
        continue

    #print "["+mail["From"]+"] :" + mail["Subject"]

    # we use walk to create a generator so we can iterate on the parts and forget about the recursive headache
    for part in mail.walk():
        # each part is a either non-multipart, or another multipart message
        # that contains further parts... Message is organized like a tree
        if part.get_content_type() == 'text/plain':
            content = part.get_payload()
            message = re.compile(r'\%(.+?)\%', re.DOTALL).findall(content)
            message = re.sub(r'=\\r\\', '', str(message))
            message = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', str(message))
            message = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', str(message))
            token = re.compile(r'\$(.+?)\$', re.DOTALL).findall(content)
            token = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', str(token))
            token = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', str(token))
            tag = re.compile(r'\^(.+?)\^', re.DOTALL).findall(content)
            tag = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', str(tag))
            tag = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', str(tag))
            print message
            print token
            print tag
            #print part.get_payload() # prints the raw text
        # multipart are just containers, so we skip them
        if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
            continue

        # is this part an attachment ?
        if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
            continue

        filename = part.get_filename()
        counter = 1

        # if there is no filename, we create one with a counter to avoid duplicates
        if not filename:
            filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, 'bin')
            counter += 1

        att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)

        #Check if its already there
        if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
            # finally write the stuff
            fp = open(att_path, 'wb')
            fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
            fp.close()
            
        path = detach_dir
        os.chdir(path)
        image1 = str(glob.glob('upload-photo1*'))
        image2 = str(glob.glob('upload-photo2*'))
        image3 = str(glob.glob('upload-photo3*'))
        image1 = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', image1)
        image1 = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', image1)
        image2 = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', image2)
        image2 = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', image2)
        image3 = re.sub(r'\[\'', '', image3)
        image3 = re.sub(r'\'\]', '', image3)
        htmlFile = str(token)+'.html'
        htmlCode = ('''<html>foo bar</html>''')
        htmlData = open(os.path.join('C:\directory', htmlFile), 'w+')
        htmlData.write(htmlCode)
        print htmlFile+' Complete'
        htmlData.close()
        allFiles = [f for f in os.listdir('.')]
        for file in allFiles:
            archive = zipfile.ZipFile(token+'.zip', mode='a')
            archive.write(file)
            archive.close()
            os.unlink(file)