root/imapclient/examples/example.py

# Copyright (c) 2013, Menno Smits
# Released subject to the New BSD License
# Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_licenses

from imapclient import IMAPClient

HOST = 'imap.host.com'
USERNAME = 'someuser'
PASSWORD = 'secret'
ssl = False

server = IMAPClient(HOST, use_uid=True, ssl=ssl)
server.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD)

select_info = server.select_folder('INBOX')
print '%d messages in INBOX' % select_info['EXISTS']

messages = server.search(['NOT DELETED'])
print "%d messages that aren't deleted" % len(messages)

print
print "Messages:"
response = server.fetch(messages, ['FLAGS', 'RFC822.SIZE'])
for msgid, data in response.iteritems():
    print '   ID %d: %d bytes, flags=%s' % (msgid,
                                            data['RFC822.SIZE'],
                                            data['FLAGS'])