IMAP Problems

[Paul Jefferson]

Brilliant! Thanks guys I will have to have a play around later

On 4 July 2010 04:12, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid> wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
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