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问题描述

我正在尝试按 UID 删除电子邮件。这是我正在访问的 hotmail 电子邮件帐户。

这就是我正在做的事情:

1. 连接到电子邮件

imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap-mail.outlook.com')
imap.login('my_email@hotmail.com', "password")

2. 从邮件中获取 UID

resp, _ = imap.select('Inbox')
mbox_response, msgnums = imap.search( None,'FROM', 'email@sender.com')

messages = [] #Appending UID to this dictionary

for num in msgnums[0].split():
    msg_uid = imap.fetch(num, 'UID')
    messages.append({'uid':imap.fetch(num, 'UID')})

3. 打印 UID

print(messages)

我得到以下输出:

[{
  'uid': ('OK', [b'1 (UID 111)']), 
  'uid': ('OK', [b'2 (UID 114)'])
}]

4. 如何删除?

如何使用这些 UID 删除特定消息?

我试过这个没有成功...

for m in messages:
    imap.store(m['uid'],'+X-GM-LABELS', '\\Trash')

我收到以下错误:

TypeError: can't concat tuple to bytes

标签: pythonimapimaplib

解决方案


from imap_tools import MailBox
with MailBox('imap.mail.com').login('test@mail.com', 'pwd', 'INBOX/test') as mailbox:
    # DELETE all messages from current folder (INBOX/test)
    mailbox.delete([msg.uid for msg in mailbox.fetch()])

https://github.com/ikvk/imap_tools


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