On Jul 25, 1:18 pm, SteveC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to use POP3_SSL class of the poplib module to read email > from my gmail account. I can connect just fine using the example > herehttp://www.python.org/doc/lib/pop3-example.html > > import getpass, poplib > > M = poplib.POP3('localhost') > M.user(getpass.getuser()) > M.pass_(getpass.getpass()) > numMessages = len(M.list()[1]) > for i in range(numMessages): > for j in M.retr(i+1)[1]: > print j > > That is the above sample code from the python doc. While everything > works fine, the problem is that when I use the list() function it only > returns about 400 messages starting from the beginning of my inbox. I > have probably 10,000 emails in my gmail account. I don't see any pop3 > object functions to "move" around the inbox or anything of the like. > > Could someone point me in the right direction? I'm sure there must be > something simple I am missing. > That's a lot of emails! :-)
I had a quick look at poplib.py and I couldn't see any limit in the code itself. Perhaps it's the gmail server that's doing it. Can you retrieve the later messages, eg have you tried M.retr(500)? If you can then you could just try retrieving messages beyond what M.list() says until it says there's no such message. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
