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John Hon
John Hon

Reputation: 203

IMAPclient IDLE mode no longer works

I have been using the IDLE mode with IMAPclient for several years now and it has always worked.

About 2 days ago, there's been a weird change where it no longer detects incoming emails.

I tried updating my IMAPclient but I'm already on the latest version (3.0.1). I have not changed any settings on my GMail account.

I have not changed my code at all - so I'm pretty stumped. I'm assuming it's a GMail server issue, but I can't find any recent press releases documenting any changes. I also can still login just fine and read existing emails, I just can't see new ones come in via IDLE.

Does anyone know the cause and solution?

from imapclient import IMAPClient
import ssl
import certifi


HOST = "imap.gmail.com"

USERNAME = file_lines[0]
PASSWORD = file_lines[1]

ssl_context = ssl.create_default_context(cafile=certifi.where())


with IMAPClient(HOST, ssl_context=ssl_context) as server:
    server.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)
    print("Logged in!")

    try:
        server.idle()
        print("Connection is now in IDLE mode, send yourself an email or quit with ^c")

        responses = server.idle_check(timeout=30)
        print(responses)
        if responses:
            print("Server sent:" + str(responses))

        else:
            print("Nothing was found in the last 10 mins. Will retry")

    finally:
        print(server.idle_done())
        server.logout()

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