IMAP Email Content

The imap_email_content sensor platform will read emails from an IMAP email server and report them as a state change within Home Assistant. This is useful if you have a device that only reports its state via email.

To enable this sensor, add the following lines to your configuration.yaml file:

# Example configuration.yaml entry
sensor:
  - platform: imap_email_content
    server: imap.gmail.com
    port: 993
    username: USERNAME
    password: PASSWORD
    senders:
      - example@gmail.com

Configuration variables:

• server (Required): The IP address or hostname of the IMAP server.
• port (Required): The port where the server is accessible.
• name (Optional): Name of the IMAP sensor to use in the frontend.
• username (Required): Username for the IMAP server.
• password (Required): Password for the IMAP server.
• senders (Required): A list of sender email addresses that are allowed to report state via email. Only emails received from these addresses will be processed.

• value_template (Optional): If specified this template will be used to render the state of the sensor. If a template is not supplied the message subject will be used for the sensor value. The following attributes will be supplied to the template:

  • from: The from address of the email
  • body: The body of the email
  • subject: The subject of the email
  • date: The date and time the email was sent