Using imaplib module with GMAIL's IMAP - hangs

[gregpinero at gmail.com]

On Nov 8, 2:22 pm, "gregpin... at gmail.com" <gregpin... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Nov 8, 1:52 pm, Jason <tenax.racc... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
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> > On Nov 8, 11:41 am, "gregpin... at gmail.com" <gregpin... at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > I'm trying to get a list of messages from GMAIL using it's new IMAP
> > > access.
>
> > > So far I've tried running this command but it just hangs.  Any ideas?
>
> > > >>> import imaplib
> > > >>> M=imaplib.IMAP4('imap.gmail.com',993)
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> > > I figured that's the first line to run from this example:http://docs.python.org/lib/imap4-example.html
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> > > Here are the configuration settings GMAIL says to use:https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78799
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> > > Thanks for any help.
>
> > > -Greg
>
> > Well, Google states that it's using SSL.  You're not using the SSL
> > with your example code.  Take a look in the imaplib module.  At least
> > under Python 2.5, there's also an IMAP4_SSL class:
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> > >>> import imaplib
> > >>> mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com', 993)
>
> > That worked for me.  I could then use the login method to log into the
> > mail server.
>
> >   --Jason
>
> Followup question.  My ultimate goal is to get all messages with a
> certain GMAIL label.  I'm going under the assumption labels will
> appear as folders over IMAP.  Any idea how to access folders with
> IMAP?
>
> -Greg


Figured it out.  Just do mail.select('label')

GMAIL does treat labels as folders.

-Greg