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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
    name: Emails
    username: USERNAME
    password: PASSWORD
    senders:
      - example@gmail.com
    value_template: TEMPLATE

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.

  • 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 recieved from these addresses will be processed.

  • value_template (Optional): If specified this template will be used to render the state of sensor. If a template is not supplied the raw message body 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