Archiving emails in Gmail

[Tim Golden]

On 15/06/2010 16:15, Grant Edwards wrote:
> 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.

I think that sums it up fairly well. I've used it for doing various things
with my personal email (generating whitelists etc.). It is actively
maintained by its owner Menno Smits and lately by Mark Hammond, but
presumably only so far as their own requirements demand.

TJG