On Sep 25, 3:22 pm, tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote:
> I can't get the list_folders() method of the mailbox.Maildir class to
> do anything remotely useful. It seems to do nothing at all. I have a
> directory which contains a number of maildir malboxes:-
>
> chris$ ls -l /home/chris/Mail/apex
> total 24
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 charles.rustin
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 greg
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 maureenMcgoldrick
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 ram
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:46 sarahLagley
> drwx------ 5 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:46 symonSmith
> chris$ ls -l /home/chris/Mail/apex/ram
> total 12
> drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 cur
> drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 new
> drwx------ 2 chris chris 4096 2009-04-30 09:45 tmp
>
> If I run the following code:-
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
> #
> #
> # Mail archiving utility
> #
> import mailbox
>
> topLevel=mailbox.Maildir("/home/chris/Mail/apex")
> print topLevel.list_folders()
>
> It just outputs "[]".
>
> Am I doing something totally wrong or is list_folders() completely broken?
>
> --
> Chris Green
The Maildir++ spec states that folders need to begin with a period.
The list_folders method enforces that:
def list_folders(self):
"""Return a list of folder names."""
result = []
for entry in os.listdir(self._path):
if len(entry) > 1 and entry[0] == '.' and \
os.path.isdir(os.path.join(self._path, entry)):
result.append(entry[1:])
return result
The above example is from 2.6. Your structure is simply a list of
Maildir compliant directories below '/home/chris/Mail/apex.' They're
not, in the Maildir++ sense of the word, folders.
--
Thanks,
Jeff
mcjeff.blospot.com
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