python imaplib mail.search； 没有回复电子邮件

Question

I'm making a script for searching emails and downloading attachments. It works well, but I encountered a problem when an email fits the criteria but is a reply to another email.

I want to select only the emails that are no replies.

Below is my code.

#connect to imap server
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(imap_url)
mail.login(username, password)

result, data = mail.search(None, '(FROM "email-address" SUBJECT "subject")')

Could I maybe add something to the mail.search line so that it ignores replies? I'm actually pretty new to this python module so help would be much appreciated! Thanks

Answer 1

Good news. Visiting this page IMAP Commands you will find the command you are looking for under SEARCH.

IMAP flag to search for:

ANSWERED
    Messages with the \Answered flag set.

So an example of the RAW search string you need to send is:

SC01 SEARCH ANSWERED

And with your Python example, probably:

result, data = mail.search(None, '(ANSWERED)')

Here is another great resource for Python imaplib :

imaplib - IMAP4 client library