On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:53 AM, freakrobot <basaka.c...@gmail.com> wrote: > When I work with the imaplib, > there is a imap4.status(mailboxname, '(MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN)') > function. > > So I really wonder what's the difference between RECENT and UNSEEN > conditions. > And what kind of messages belong to RECENT condition?
A. Your question is not Python-specific and would better have been asked somewhere more relevant. B. RTFRFC: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc3501.html """ UNSEEN The number of messages which do not have the \Seen flag set. [...] \Seen Message has been read \Recent Message is "recently" arrived in this mailbox. This session is the first session to have been notified about this message; if the session is read-write, subsequent sessions will not see \Recent set for this message. This flag can not be altered by the client. If it is not possible to determine whether or not this session is the first session to be notified about a message, then that message SHOULD be considered recent. If multiple connections have the same mailbox selected simultaneously, it is undefined which of these connections will see newly-arrived messages with \Recent set and which will see it without \Recent set. """ Regards, Chris -- http://blog.rebertia.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
