Bulk-email-downloader

A bulk email downloader from an IMAP server written in go. It downloads bulk emails from an IMAP server using configurable number of go-routines. It saves them in an Array called Messages.

Config

Create a .env file in the same directory as the main.go file, and fill in the following properties:

IMAP_SERVER=
EMAIL=
PASSWORD=

2 configurations determine the number of emails read per batch, and the total number of emails to be read

Default values are:

const EmailsPerBatch = 500
const TotalEmails = 2000

Feel free to change them as per your specifications.

Example output

go run main.go
2018/07/11 16:24:35 Connecting to server...
2018/07/11 16:24:37 Logged in
2018/07/11 16:24:37 Fetching emails from number 501:1000
2018/07/11 16:24:37 Fetching emails from number 1:500
2018/07/11 16:24:37 Fetching emails from number 1001:1500
2018/07/11 16:24:42 Logging out
2018/07/11 16:24:42 Read 1216 messages
2018/07/11 16:24:42 Time taken 6.814280051s