Fetch an email with imaplib but do not mark it as SEEN

Question

I want to parse some emails from a user \'s inbox but when I do:

typ, msg_data = imap_conn.fetch(uid, \'(RFC822)\')

It marks the email as S

Answer 1

You might also set read_only to true when selecting the folder:

imap_conn.select('Inbox', readonly=True)