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IMAP Search criteria
@nickdenisenko

nickdenisenko commented Nov 9, 2018

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@HamidSayeed

UID SEARCH HEADER Message-ID <53513DD7.8090606@imap.local>

@tiev

tiev commented Feb 21, 2019

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I wanna add RFC document link https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-6.4.4

@tscheer100

tscheer100 commented Mar 19, 2020

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is there a link with examples to these?

@tobiasm-1

tobiasm-1 commented May 5, 2020

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Do you know of a search key where the first/last email is found?

@harshmalvi97

harshmalvi97 commented May 13, 2020

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@tobiasm-1 This will gives you latest uid of email.
client.selectMailbox("INBOX").then((inbox) => {
let numberEmails = inbox.exists;
console.log("# messages: " + numberEmails);
return numberEmails;
})

@gregsvieira

gregsvieira commented Aug 16, 2022

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i'm using the download-email-attachments library and after modified date criterion through the function processMails(node_modules\download-email-attachments\lib\find-emails.js.) from "SINCE" to "UNSEEN" doesnt work.
Someone know why?

@paulonteri

paulonteri commented Aug 21, 2022

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Here's one example:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66906573/10904662

You can use SENTSINCE to get most recent messages

date = (datetime.date.today() - datetime.timedelta(days=2)).strftime("%d-%b-%Y")
typ, messages = m.search(None, '(ALL)', f'(SENTSINCE {date})')

To get only today messages you can use

date = datetime.date.today().strftime("%d-%b-%Y")

Une can as well replace '(ALL)' by '(UNSEEN)' to get only unseen messages

@karado58

karado58 commented Aug 23, 2022 •
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Can you please give me an example for the HEADER <field-name> <string>
field-name is: Authentication-Results
string is: header.i=@

This below is generating errors:
resp_code, mails = imap_ssl.search(None, '(HEADER "Authentication-Results" "header.i=@")')

@ravitalaviya

ravitalaviya commented Oct 11, 2022

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I want to extract only automatic reply mail body and signature. so, anyone help me please

@n9

n9 commented Aug 30, 2023

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Link to current RFC: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9051#section-6.4.4-14

@iamansingh0

iamansingh0 commented Jan 25, 2024

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Can anyone help? I only want to extract emails sent since 8 hour ago.

@ayushsingh021

ayushsingh021 commented Mar 15, 2024

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hey why search function not searching correctly if there are spaces in the subject can anyone tell??

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