This little program gives IMO a strange result. import imaplib
user = "cpapen" cyr = imaplib.IMAP4("imap.vub.ac.be") cyr.login("cyrus", "cOn-A1r") rc, lst = cyr.list('""', "user/%s/*" % user) for el in lst: print "%r" % (el,) And the result is: '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/Out"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/Punten"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/Spam"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/agoog to be"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/artistiek &- kunst"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/copains et copinnes =x="' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/cp &- writing"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/examen"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/important info (pass)"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/lesmateriaal"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/love &- flesh for fantasy"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/media"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/music &- beats"' ('(\\HasNoChildren) "/" {25}', 'user/cpapen/newsletters %') '' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/organisatie &- structuur"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/sociale wetenschappen"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/the closest ones to me [x]"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/vubrations"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/wm2addressbook"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/wm2prefs"' '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "user/cpapen/wm2signature"' What I have a problem with is the 14th and 15th line. All other entries are strings but the 14th is a tuple. and the 15th is an empty string. As far as I can tell every time a "%" is in the mailbox name I get this kind of result. I'm using python 2.3.3 and the imap sytem is Cyrus. Can someone explain what is going one? Is this a bug? If it is, is it fixed in later versions? Whether or not it is a bug, can I rely on the mailbox being the last item in the tuple in these cases? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list