How to mark an email as seen after reading it with 'mark_seen = False' in imap_tools python?

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So first of all this is my code:

with MailBox('imap.gmail.com').login('username', 'password', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
                for msg in mailbox.fetch(AND(mark_seen=False, from_="some_domain")):
                    prt_msg_text = msg.text
                    if 'some_text' in prt_msg_text:
                        *here I want to mark the email as seen, if a specific text is in the msg*

So I want to read the email first without marking it as seen and if a specific condition is true, I want to mark this specific email as seen. Is that possible to do?

I already tried that, by doing the following: msg(mark_seen=True), but I guess that's not how it works. As you can see its opening the messages in a loop, so Im not really sure how to open that specific message again. I tried this: mailbox.fetch(msg) aswell, but that wasnt working either. — the_guy71639, Aug 05 '21 at 12:51
So how would I read that specific Email again? I thought about using the UID of the E-Mail, but Im really new to IMAP and Imap_tools so I didnt found an solution for that yet. — the_guy71639, Aug 05 '21 at 13:23

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited Sep 28 '21 at 09:20

I am new to it aswell, but I'm good at googling.

from imap_tools import MailBox, A

with MailBox('imap.gmail.com').login('username', 'pwd', 'INBOX') as mailbox:
    uids = []
    for msg in mailbox.fetch(A(from_="@some.domain"), mark_seen=False):
        body = msg.text or msg.html
        if 'some_text' in body:
            uids.append(msg.uid)
    mailbox.flag(uids, imap_tools.MailMessageFlags.SEEN, True)

*mark_seen is fetch's argument.

Vladimir · Answer 2 · 2021-08-09T10:04:57.437

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mark_seen is fetch's argument.

When you fix this error, use mark_seen arg and mailbox.flag method

edited Aug 09 '21 at 10:04

answered Aug 09 '21 at 05:29

Vladimir

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How to mark an email as seen after reading it with 'mark_seen = False' in imap_tools python?

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