Archiving emails in Gmail

Tim Golden mail at timgolden.me.uk
Tue Jun 15 10:29:07 EDT 2010


On 15/06/2010 15:10, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2010-06-15, teja<tejaskohok at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I have a requirement that I want to log-in into a gmail account read
>> all unread mails, mark them as read and then archive them.
>> I am using libgmail (version 0.1.11) library to do so, using which I
>> am able to log-in into a gmail account fetch all unread message and
>> then read them one by one.
>> Now my problem is that I am not able to mark the unread mail as read
>> and archive it.
>
> I don't know what libgmail is, but I use IMAP for stuff like that
> (with Gmail and other servers). Python's imaplib is a bit low-level
> (and IMAP sucks rather badly as a protocol), so you might want to take
> a look at imaplib2.
>
> http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html
>
> http://www.janeelix.com/piers/python/imaplib.html

Or imapclient:

   http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/

TJG



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