Archiving emails in Gmail

[Grant Edwards]

On 2010-06-15, Tim Golden <mail at timgolden.me.uk> wrote:
> 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/

That looks promising though it's still a bit incomplete (e.g. doesn't
support 'idle' or 'examine' commands).  But, for simple apps it looks
like a good options.

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