IMAP examples

[Donn Cave]

Quoth "Tony Meyer" <ta-meyer at ihug.co.nz>:
|>  It would be nice if it also explained some of the magic numbers
|>  and strings in comments or in some text around the example:
|>
|> 	Why data[0]
|> 	Why M.search(None, 'ALL')
|> 	and why '(RFC822)' as the 2nd arg in the M.fetch()
|
| You're not asking for documentation about imaplib here, you're asking for
| documentation about the imap protocol; of course it's not there, you're
| looking in the wrong place.  If you don't understand imap, why should you
| understand how to use imaplib?
|
| Using imaplib is very similar to simply passing the commands to an imap
| server - much more so, for example, than twisted's imap support (which hides
| details of IMAP, and so should provide more documentation than imaplib).

Well, to be fair, the first question, "Why data[0]" has more to do with
imaplib than IMAP4rev1.  I doubt it has an interesting answer, though -
might as well just say "Because".

	Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com