How to send a non-standard IMAP command?

[Tim Chase]

On 06/23/2010 05:22 PM, Xianwen Chen wrote:
> I need to send one line of commands to an IMAP server. The commands
> are not standard IMAP protocols, hence it's not specified in
> http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html.

Sounds like you want to use the imaplib's IMAP4.xatom() to send a 
custom command to your IMAP server:

http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html#imaplib.IMAP4.xatom

Given that you don't detail what you want to send or expect back, 
it's a little hard to give you more than that, but at least that 
should get you started.  However, the full source to imaplib is 
in your $PYTHONLIB directory so you can see how other commands 
are implemented and responses are interpreted.

-tkc