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From: Paul on 2 Jul 2010 18:35 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') # after connecting, tell the server who you are server.login('xxxx(a)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()
From: MRAB on 3 Jul 2010 19:28 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.
From: Grant Edwards on 3 Jul 2010 23:12
> 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, then� > 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. -- Grant |