On Nov 8, 2:22 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> On Nov 8, 1:52 pm, Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > On Nov 8, 11:41 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
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> > > 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)
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> > > I figured that's the first line to run from this
> > > example:http://docs.python.org/lib/imap4-example.html
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> > > Here are the configuration settings GMAIL says to
> > > use:https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
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> > > 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:
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> > >>> 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
>
> Followup question. My ultimate goal is to get all messages with a
> certain GMAIL label. I'm going under the assumption labels will
> appear as folders over IMAP. Any idea how to access folders with
> IMAP?
>
> -Greg
Figured it out. Just do mail.select('label')
GMAIL does treat labels as folders.
-Greg
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