title: Python - Get datetime of mails - Gmail
body: <p>I was trying to download the attachments from the Gmail using python for a specific keyword and the code is below,</p>
  
  <pre><code>def read_email_from_gmail():
  mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url)
  mail.login(user, password)
  mail.select('"[Gmail]/All Mail"')
  print("Login into Mailbox")
  result, data = mail.search(None, '(SUBJECT "Contract note")')
  count = 0
  for num in data[0].split():
      result, data = mail.fetch(num, "(RFC822)")
      raw_email_string = data[0][1].decode('utf-8')
      msg = email.message_from_string(raw_email_string)
      for part in msg.walk():
          if part.get_content_type() == "text/plain":
              print(part.get_payload(decode=True))
  
          if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
              continue
          if part.get('Content-Disposition') is None:
              continue
          fileName = part.get_filename()
          print(part.get_)
          fileName = fileName+str(count)+str('.pdf')
          count = count + 1
          if bool(fileName):
              filePath = os.path.join(attachment_dir, fileName)
              with open(filePath, 'wb') as e:
                  e.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The code works fine and it was downloading the attachment. The issue is all the attachment in the mails are off in the same name so in the above code I have added a count and appended it. But in future it will be so tough to find the right file.</p>
  
  <p>Note:- I used to recieve the mail daily</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please guide me how to get the date of the email so that I will append it to the filename rather than the count.</p>