I've wrote my first python requests program and it works. Im trying to sign up to a particular website, and while I can do it fine, I want to be able to multithread to make the process more efficient.

problem is as part of my program, it connects to gmail and retrieves a login code. To make the functions easier to write, i have say, 5 emails that are forwarded to my imap account. My function then logs into imap and takes note of the original 'To' header to select the email i want and then takes the code i need.

Obviously, when multithreading, ideally I don't want multiple simultaneous connections to the mailbox as I assume this would cause me issues? Or will it? Im going to text it but figured It might cause problems with gmail due to simultaneous connections

Would I have to create an obhect of some sort where my imap process continuously updates perhaps? And then I can try and write my functions to search there instead? or is there an easier way where I can connect to imap at the start and have any threads using that one connection? Not sure of the best way to handle it