imaplib fetch message flags

Rich Healey healey.rich at gmail.com
Sun Mar 1 23:14:39 EST 2009


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Rich Healey wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> I'm using an example of an imap client I found with google as a
> framework for a more fullfeatured imap client.
> 
> They use the line:
> 
>  f = self.M.fetch(num, '(BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT FROM)])')
> 
> To retrieve the Subject: and From: fields from the message. I'm curious
> about how to get the imap flags attached to the message, I can't find
> this anywhere. The documentation suggests that it's merely some flag as
> part of the `message_parts' argument to IMAP4{,_SSL}.fetch() method, but
> what I cannot find. I've tried
> (BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT FROM FLAGS)])
> but it doesn't have the desired result.
> 
> I'm sure I'm missing something obvious.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
> Richo
Found my own solution.

Anyone interested I found the info I needed on:

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/Python-Email-Libraries-part-2-IMAP/3/
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