Python IMAP - search by headers

Asked Sep 22 '17 at 08:02

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I am using Python's IMAPClient in my mail client, and basically I am stuck trying to look up messages by their headers. Specifically, I am trying to find all messages with a given in_reply_to value, which is part of ENVELOPE.

I have tried the following, but none of them works.

server.select_folder(folder_name)
server.search(['ENVELOPE[IN_REPLY_TO]', 'my_target_value'])
#server.search(['ENVELOPE.IN_REPLY_TO', 'my_target_value'])
#server.search(['IN_REPLY_TO', 'my_target_value'])

Any ideas how to do that?

edited Sep 22 '17 at 08:02

Cédric Julien

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Edgar Navasardyan

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just a guess — 'header "in-reply-to"' might do it. – arnt Sep 22 '17 at 09:36
@arnt, goods news is that it does not year bad-command error. But bad news is that it returns empty list – Edgar Navasardyan Sep 22 '17 at 09:58
`server.search(['HEADER references ""'])` – Edgar Navasardyan Sep 22 '17 at 09:58
IIRC one of the well-known servers is broken and just doesn't support that search. Can't remember which and I have to concentrate on something else. If even a search for "@" or "" returns the empty set, you must be using that server. – arnt Sep 22 '17 at 11:32

Python IMAP - search by headers

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