> 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,
>
> code, mailboxen= server.list()
> print mailboxen
> # if it's called INBOX, thenÂ…
> server.select("INBOX")
You probably want to try examine() instead of select(). That opens
the mailbox in a read-only mode which and should avoid changing any
flag values.
>From RFC3501:
The EXAMINE command is identical to SELECT and returns the same
output; however, the selected mailbox is identified as
read-only. No changes to the permanent state of the mailbox,
including per-user state, are permitted; in particular, EXAMINE
MUST NOT cause messages to lose the \Recent flag.
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