Paul Jefferson wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to write a simple script which displays the basic details
of a person's mailbox. My problem is that it causes all the messages
to be marked as read on the server, which is not what I'm after, and
I also can't get the imap.sort command to work properly (currently
commented out as I replaced it with a imap.search to get the thing
working.
These are probably very simple things, but I've not tried this library
before so am a bit stuck so any help wwould be very gratefully
received.
Thanks,
Paul
Code:
# -*- coding: cp1252 -*-
import imaplib,email
# you want to connect to a server; specify which server
server= imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.googlemail.com
<http://imap.googlemail.com>')
# after connecting, tell the server who you are
server.login('x...
<http://groups.google.com/groups/unlock?_done=/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/024b81e0ea199177&msg=c9ac781cea58a990>@gmail.com
<http://gmail.com>', 'xxxxxxx')
# this will show you a list of available folders
# possibly your Inbox is called INBOX, but check the list of mailboxes
code, mailboxen= server.list()
print mailboxen
# if it's called INBOX, then…
server.select("INBOX")
typ, data = server.search(None, 'ALL')
#typ, data = server.sort("Date","UTF-8", 'ALL')
print len(data[0].split())
for num in data[0].split():
typ, data = server.fetch(num, '(RFC822)')
#print 'Message %s\n%s\n' % (num, data[0][1])
msg = email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
print msg["From"]
print msg["Subject"]
print msg["Date"]
print "_______________________________"
server.close()
server.logout()
You might want to read what it says here:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2060.html#page-41
If you can use '(BODY[])' instead of '(RFC822)' then you could use
'(BODY.PEEK[])'.
Alternatively, try:
server.store(num, '-FLAGS', r'\Seen')
to mark it as unread after fetching.
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