Select mailbox "sent mail" or "all mail" in Ruby Net::IMAP
Solution 1
The "sent mail" folder will differ from provider to provider. Gmail's "sent mail" folder is named "[Gmail]/Sent Mail
". Select that instead and it'll work.
imap.select('[Gmail]/Sent Mail')
FYI, Gmail's system folders are the following:
INBOX
[Gmail]/All Mail
[Gmail]/Drafts
[Gmail]/Sent Mail
[Gmail]/Spam
[Gmail]/Starred
[Gmail]/Trash
Solution 2
You can find the names of all folders with:
imap.list('*', '*')
The Gmail folders name's will change depending on the user selected language. So in Spanish for example:
"[Gmail]/All" Mail will be "[Gmail]/Todos"
Solution 3
I found the following to be helpful (ruby 2.0.0-p195)
# list all folders
imap.list '', '%'
Comments
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Eli Albért almost 2 years
I'm trying to use Net::IMAP in Ruby to search all mail sent by me, but I'm having trouble selecting anything other than INBOX.
imap.select('INBOX')
works fine, but
imap.select('Mail/sent-mail')
as shown on the Net::IMAP documentation gives me "Unknown Mailbox".
Incidentally, this is to be used with gmail.
I also tried adding "in", "anywhere" to my imap.search(), but that didn't parse.
Current code:
imap.select('INBOX') now = Time.now.localtime - 1209600 #two weeks since = now.day.to_s() + "-" + Date::MONTHNAMES[now.month] + "-" + now.year.to_s() puts "since" puts since begin mail_ids = imap.search(["FROM", "me", "SINCE", since]) mail_ids.each do |id| text = imap.fetch(id, 'BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT)]').to_s.split("{").second.chop puts text end end