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pythonemailgmailimap
Eby
Eby

Reputation: 2789

Read new mails from sent items using IMAP

I'm trying to retrieve new mails from sent mail folder of Gmail using IMAP, but in the sent folder every messages are has the \Seen flag set. So I cannot retrieve the latest messages in the folder.

imap_conn.select("[Gmail]/Sent Mail")

typ, data = imap_conn.search(None,since_date,'UnSeen')

Do anyone have idea for how to retrieve the new mails from sent folder?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2867

Answers (2)

Max Quant
Max Quant

Reputation: 476

For the name to use for your 'Sent Items' folders check:

mail.list()

Make sure you use the extra quotes in your string, e.g.: 

imap_conn.select('"[Gmail]/Sent Mail"')

That worked for me.

Upvotes: 3

Lars Nordin
Lars Nordin

Reputation: 2828

Although less efficient then Gryphius' answer, you create a custom IMAP flag and then mark all the message you have seen with that custom flag.

Here is an example from SO: javamail: Setting custom flags on imap mail and searching for mails with custom flags

Upvotes: 0

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