How to create a folder using IMAPLib?

Laura Creighton lac at openend.se
Wed Nov 18 16:58:47 EST 2015


In a message of Thu, 19 Nov 2015 07:35:36 +1100, Chris Angelico writes:
>On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Anthony Papillion
><anthony at cajuntechie.org> wrote:
>> I'm writing a program to help migrate mail from one host to another
>> with a few special circumstances. I'm able to get a list off of the
>> source IMAP server using the .list() command but I'm not quite sure
>> how to create a folder on the target machine.
>>
>> Does anyone know how to create a folder using IMAPlib?
>
>They're called "mailboxes", which I'll admit is not the most obvious
>name, but imaplib is following the IMAP spec here. You can create them
>with .create() and delete them with .delete().
>
>ChrisA
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Sample code here:
https://pymotw.com/2/imaplib/

Laura



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