I cannot search sent emails in Gmail with Python
I am trying to search for messages in the Sent (actually i care for both) but I only get incoming messages. For the time being i have imap_conn.select() str_after = after.strftime('%d-%b-%Y') typ, msg_ids = imap_conn.search('UTF-8','SINCE',str_after) Which gives equivalent results with this imap_conn.select('INBOX') When I replace INBOX with ALL or SENT I get: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED w-- Man, the error message is so misleading. What it's really saying is that you have tried to select an invalid folder name hence the search operation fails. To