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From: teja on 15 Jun 2010 03:03 Hi, I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I am able to log-in into a gmail account fetch all unread message and then read them one by one. Now my problem is that I am not able to mark the unread mail as read and archive it. Below is sample code that I am using. from libgmail import * ARCHIVE_ACTION='rc_^i' #the action string to archive a message UNREAD_MAILS = "is:unread" def ArchiveAll(): ga = GmailAccount(name='username', pw='password') print 'logging in...', ga.login() print 'successful' def _getAllUnreadMails(): return ga.getMessagesByQuery(UNREAD_MAILS, True) def _readMail(email): emailData = ga.getRawMessage(email) def _archiveAndMarkRead(email): ga._doThreadAction(ARCHIVE_ACTION, email) ga._doThreadAction(U_MARKREAD_ACTION, email) emails = _getAllUnreadMails() for email in emails: eData = _readMail(email) #Process email data _archiveAndMarkRead(email) print 'done' if __name__ == '__main__': ArchiveAll() after executing this code I am getting following error HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_libgmail.py", line 30, in <module> ArchiveAll() File "test_libgmail.py", line 26, in ArchiveAll [_archiveAndMarkRead(t) for t in sr[1]] File "test_libgmail.py", line 21, in _archiveAndMarkRead ga._doThreadAction(ARCHIVE_ACTION, thread) File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 669, in _doThreadAction items = self._parsePage(_buildURL(**params)) File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 383, in _parsePage items = _parsePage(self._retrievePage(urlOrRequest)) File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 99, in _parsePage lines = pageContent.splitlines() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines' Can anyone help me in figuring out what's going wrong here? I guess google has deprecated this way of marking emails, correct me if I am wrong here. But if its true, is there any other way or library in Python to meet my requirements? Thanks in advance.
From: Alf P. Steinbach on 15 Jun 2010 03:34 * teja, on 15.06.2010 09:03: > Hi, > > I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read > all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. > I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I > am able to log-in into a gmail account fetch all unread message and > then read them one by one. > Now my problem is that I am not able to mark the unread mail as read > and archive it. > > Below is sample code that I am using. > > > from libgmail import * > > ARCHIVE_ACTION='rc_^i' #the action string to archive a message > UNREAD_MAILS = "is:unread" > > def ArchiveAll(): > ga = GmailAccount(name='username', pw='password') > print 'logging in...', > ga.login() > print 'successful' > > def _getAllUnreadMails(): > return ga.getMessagesByQuery(UNREAD_MAILS, True) > > def _readMail(email): > emailData = ga.getRawMessage(email) > > def _archiveAndMarkRead(email): > ga._doThreadAction(ARCHIVE_ACTION, email) > ga._doThreadAction(U_MARKREAD_ACTION, email) > > emails = _getAllUnreadMails() > for email in emails: > eData = _readMail(email) > #Process email data > _archiveAndMarkRead(email) > > print 'done' > > if __name__ == '__main__': > ArchiveAll() > > after executing this code I am getting following error > > HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "test_libgmail.py", line 30, in<module> > ArchiveAll() > File "test_libgmail.py", line 26, in ArchiveAll > [_archiveAndMarkRead(t) for t in sr[1]] In the code you show above there is no line [_archiveAndMarkRead(t) for t in sr[1]] Instead you have _archiveAndMarkRead(email) I tentatively conclude from this that the error is in your real code, as opposed to the code you've shown. > File "test_libgmail.py", line 21, in _archiveAndMarkRead > ga._doThreadAction(ARCHIVE_ACTION, thread) > File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 669, in > _doThreadAction > items = self._parsePage(_buildURL(**params)) > File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 383, in _parsePage > items = _parsePage(self._retrievePage(urlOrRequest)) > File "/home/3rdparty/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 99, in _parsePage > lines = pageContent.splitlines() > AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines' > > Can anyone help me in figuring out what's going wrong here? You're passing a None value. It originates somewhere in your real code, which it appears that you have not shown. > I guess google has deprecated this way of marking emails, correct me > if I am wrong here. > But if its true, is there any other way or library in Python to meet > my requirements? You can access GMail via an ordinary e-mail client. What's that called, POP protocol? I think the protocol for sending is SMTP. Any library handling those two protocols can be used. Cheers & hth., - Alf, who, unfortunately, wrt. to your real code, is not a telepath :-) -- blog at <url: http://alfps.wordpress.com>
From: teja on 15 Jun 2010 05:07 Ohh my bad... thanks a lot for replying Alf.. The error which I've pasted above, was thrown before I modified the code a bit.. Here's the error thrown on running the code I've pasted above.. there's not much of a difference in the error though. HTTP Error 500: Internal Server Error Traceback (most recent call last): File "test_libgmail.py", line 40, in <module> ArchiveAll() File "test_libgmail.py", line 35, in ArchiveAll _archiveAndMarkRead(email) File "test_libgmail.py", line 28, in _archiveAndMarkRead ga._doThreadAction(ARCHIVE_ACTION, email) File "/home/3rdparty/test/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 670, in _doThreadAction items = self._parsePage(_buildURL(**params)) File "/home/3rdparty/test/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 384, in _parsePage items = _parsePage(self._retrievePage(urlOrRequest)) File "/home/3rdparty/test/libgmail/libgmail.py", line 99, in _parsePage lines = pageContent.splitlines() AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'splitlines' I tried to debug the issue here, when self._retrievePage(urlOrRequest) is called (it is called internally in libgmail) a 500 internal server error is thrown. And hence further processing on the response can not be done. I also caught the url which throws 500: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=1&search=all&t=129374b41acebfcd&view=up&at=&act=rc_^i Now I don't know why 500 is thrown and on which side the exact problem lies, i.e. the libgmail side or the gmail side. And there's a email library provided in Python (supports both POP and SMTP) but I dont know whether it allows us to archive mails or mark them as read for that matter.
From: Thomas Jollans on 15 Jun 2010 05:39 On 06/15/2010 11:07 AM, teja wrote: > And there's a email library provided in Python (supports both POP and > SMTP) but I dont know whether it allows us to archive mails or mark > them as read for that matter. POP (the protocol) only allows downloading messages, AFAIK. SMTP is for sending. A more powerful e-mail protocol is IMAP, which gmail also supports. I don't know about Python libraries, you'll probably find a reasonably full-featured one, but IMAP supports marking messages as read. As for archiving, I'm guessing that this'd be implemented by moving messages to an "archive" folder. Maybe you should connect to gmail with an email client (Thunderbird is nice) via IMAP and check 1. whether you can archive mails from there 2. how exactly gmail archiving maps to IMAP and then implement it using IMAP, having your script just do the same thing you did in Thunderbird, WLM, Sylpheed, Mail.app, or whatever you're using. Have fun, Thomas
From: Grant Edwards on 15 Jun 2010 10:10
On 2010-06-15, teja <tejaskohok(a)gmail.com> wrote: > I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read > all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them. > I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I > am able to log-in into a gmail account fetch all unread message and > then read them one by one. > Now my problem is that I am not able to mark the unread mail as read > and archive it. I don't know what libgmail is, but I use IMAP for stuff like that (with Gmail and other servers). Python's imaplib is a bit low-level (and IMAP sucks rather badly as a protocol), so you might want to take a look at imaplib2. http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html http://www.janeelix.com/piers/python/imaplib.html -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Was my SOY LOAF left at out in th'RAIN? It tastes gmail.com REAL GOOD!! |