How to use search imaplib

Asked Dec 21 '12 at 12:13

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I need to download only emails from the IMAP server which are older than a certain Linux timestamp. The Linux time stamp has to be to the second. This gets updated as per the server time. Example :

datetime.now().strftime('%d-%b-%Y %H:%M:%s')
'21-Dec-2012 16:50:1356088844

Problem code:

result, data = imap_server.search(None, '(SINCE '+datetime.now().strftime('%d-%b-%Y')+')')

The search function only takes in 'SINCE + DATE'. It won't take a full date time argument. It only takes the date example '21-Dec-2012'

How can I solve this?

edited Dec 21 '12 at 12:14

Chris Seymour

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I have a feeling you have to filter on `INTERNALDATE` (or whatever) afterwards - don't think you can give `SINCE` a time... – Jon Clements Dec 21 '12 at 12:17
I was hoping to avoid that. – Vishal Khialani Dec 21 '12 at 12:26

How to use search imaplib

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