How do I enable push-notification for IMAP (Gmail) using Python imaplib?

Question

Is there a way to monitor a gmail account using imaplib without polling gmail each time I want to see if there is new mail. Or in other words, I just want the script to be notif

Answer 1

There is simple patch proposed at bugs.python.org implementing RFC 2177 IMAP IDLE command in a synchronous way ( to wait for more than 1 IMAP server you have to use threads or other means of parallel execution ). It uses stdlib select to wait on socket including timeout. This patch will eventually be added to stdlib, but tests have to be written first. The IDLE command is what you need for gmail IMAP push-notification. Hope, this will help :)