On Nov 8, 11:41 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get a list of messages from GMAIL using it's new IMAP > access. > > So far I've tried running this command but it just hangs. Any ideas? > > >>> import imaplib > >>> M=imaplib.IMAP4('imap.gmail.com',993) > > I figured that's the first line to run from this > example:http://docs.python.org/lib/imap4-example.html > > Here are the configuration settings GMAIL says to > use:https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799 > > Thanks for any help. > > -Greg
Well, Google states that it's using SSL. You're not using the SSL with your example code. Take a look in the imaplib module. At least under Python 2.5, there's also an IMAP4_SSL class: >>> import imaplib >>> mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993) That worked for me. I could then use the login method to log into the mail server. --Jason -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list