if there were no problems expunging the emails note that some email providers automatically expunge emails deleted with delete_messages(instead of waiting for an expunge command from the imap client disconnecting from the imap server when your program has finished retrieving or deleting emailssimply call the imapclient' logout(method to disconnect from the imap server imapobj logout(if your program runs for several minutes or morethe imap server may time outor automatically disconnect in this casethe next method call your program makes on the imapclient object should raise an exception like the followingimaplib abortsocket error[winerror an existing connection was forcibly closed by the remote host in this eventyour program will have to call imapclient imapclient(to connect again whewthat' it there were lot of hoops to jump throughbut you now have way to get your python programs to log in to an email account and fetch emails you can always consult the overview in "retrieving and deleting emails with imapon page whenever you need to remember all of the steps projectsending member dues reminder emails say you have been "volunteeredto track member dues for the mandatory volunteerism club this is truly boring jobinvolving maintaining spreadsheet of everyone who has paid each month and emailing reminders to those who haven' instead of going through the spreadsheet yourself and copying and pasting the same email to everyone who is behind on dueslet' --you guessed it--write script that does this for you at high levelhere' what your program will do read data from an excel spreadsheet find all members who have not paid dues for the latest month find their email addresses and send them personalized reminders this means your code will need to do the following open and read the cells of an excel document with the openpyxl module (see for working with excel files create dictionary of members who are behind on their dues sending email and text messages