[Chicago] imaplib and gmail... the inbox count is wrong! Wrong, I tell ya!

[Fawad Halim]

Hmm,
  It works for me.

>>> mail.select('INBOX')[1]
['25']
>>> mail.select('[Gmail]/All Mail')[1]
['148403']

The INBOX count I'm getting is consistent with the number of messages
in my inbox (read and unread).

Regards
-fawad

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Jason Huggins <jason at jrandolph.com> wrote:
> Hiya, folks!
>
> I tried googling this, but nothing came up in my quest... so I'm
> switching to "Let's ask some humans" mode.
>
> I'm trying to get an accurate count of the total number of messages
> (read and unread) in my Inbox.
>
> Here's my code:
>>>> import imaplib
>>>> mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
>>>> mail.login('larry at gmail.com','sergey_is_my_homeboy')
> ('OK', ['larry at gmail.com authenticated (Success)'])
>>>> status, count = mail.select ('Inbox')
>>>> status, count
> ('OK', ['9332'])
>
> If I log into Gmail through the web, the inbox count is different (and
> thousands less than 9332). The 9332 number appears to be the number if
> I open "All Mail" through the web. Is there a way to *just* get the
> number of messages in the inbox? It feels like the above code should
> give me the accurate number, but it's not.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - jason
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