Gmail imap search does not get all messages.

[Bart Kastermans]

Quick update on the below:
the issue has disappeared by itself.  I did not get to working on this
much since sending my last message.  Now that I am looking at this the
issue has disappeared.


On Jan 29, 8:23 pm, Bart  Kastermans <bkast... at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use imaplib with gmail.  I am finding however that with
> the gmail server imaplib.search does not give the correct answer.  See
> the below traces (k is a server a my department, i is gmail).
> k has 6 messages in the INBOX
> i has 3 messages in the INBOX
>
> However i.search(None, "ALL")
> only gives as answer "1 2", missing the third message.
>
> Any suggestions about what I might be doing wrong?  Or is this a known
> issue?  I couldn't find anything by googling, but maybe I am using the
> wrong search terms.
>
> Best,
> Bart
>
> >>> k.select()
>
>   05:41.11 > FEIC2 SELECT INBOX
>   05:41.16 < * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen \Draft MATH
> $Forwarded $label5 $label1 $label4 $label2 $label3 NonJunk $NotJunk
> $Junk JunkRecorded)
>   05:41.16 < * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Seen
> \Draft MATH $Forwarded $label5 $label1 $label4 $label2 $label3 NonJunk
> $NotJunk $Junk JunkRecorded \*)] Flags permitted.
>   05:41.16 < * 6 EXISTS
>   05:41.16 < * 0 RECENT
>   05:41.16 < * OK [UIDVALIDITY xXxXxXxXxX] UIDs valid
>   05:41.16 < * OK [UIDNEXT xXxXxXxX] Predicted next UID
>   05:41.16 < FEIC2 OK [READ-WRITE] Select completed.
> ('OK', ['6'])>>> k.search(None,"ALL")
>
>   05:52.82 > FEIC3 SEARCH ALL
>   05:52.86 < * SEARCH 1 2 3 4 5 6
>   05:52.86 < FEIC3 OK Search completed.
> ('OK', ['1 2 3 4 5 6'])
>
> >>> i.select()
>
>   10:23.16 > DKNG10 SELECT INBOX
>   10:23.30 < * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
>   10:23.30 < * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted
> \Seen \*)]
>   10:23.30 < * OK [UIDVALIDITY xXxXxXxXx]
>   10:23.30 < * 3 EXISTS
>   10:23.30 < * 0 RECENT
>   10:23.30 < * OK [UNSEEN 3]
>   10:23.30 < * OK [UIDNEXT 7]
>   10:23.31 < DKNG10 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX selected. (Success)
> ('OK', ['3'])>>> i.search(None,"ALL")
>
>   10:17.30 > DKNG9 SEARCH ALL
>   10:17.44 < * SEARCH 1 2
>   10:17.44 < DKNG9 OK SEARCH completed (Success)
> ('OK', ['1 2'])