Select mailbox “sent mail” or “all mail” in Ruby Net::IMAP

Question

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\')
         


        

Answer 1

Don't use LIST "" *. You many end up with thousands of mailboxes. Use LIST "" % . If you are only interested in children/subfolders, you can do something like imap.list '', '%/%' and so on imap.list '', '%/%/%'

lists parent(s) folder only, depth 1.

C: RUBY0002 LIST "" "%"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Calendar
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Contacts
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Deleted Items"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Drafts
S: * LIST (\Marked \HasChildren) "/" INBOX
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Journal
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Junk E-Mail"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Notes
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Outbox
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent Items"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" Tasks
S: RUBY0002 OK LIST completed.

list children . depth 2.

C: RUBY0003 LIST "" "%/%"
S: * LIST (\HasNoChildren) "/" INBOX/subfolder
S: RUBY0003 OK LIST completed.
C: RUBY0004 SELECT INBOX/subfolder
S: * 2 EXISTS
S: * 0 RECENT
S: * FLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)
S: * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Seen \Answered \Flagged \Deleted \Draft $MDNSent)] Permanent flags
S: * OK [UIDVALIDITY 37286] UIDVALIDITY value
S: * OK [UIDNEXT 6] The next unique identifier value
S: RUBY0004 OK [READ-WRITE] SELECT completed.