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-rwxr-xr-xarchivemail.py9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/archivemail.py b/archivemail.py
index f51141d..bbf52dc 100755
--- a/archivemail.py
+++ b/archivemail.py
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ def _archive_imap(mailbox_name, final_archive_name):
result, response = imap_srv.search(None, imap_filter)
if result != 'OK': unexpected_error("imap search failed")
- # response is a list with a single item, listing message ids
+ # response is a list with a single item, listing message sequence numbers
# like ['1 2 3 1016']
message_list = response[0].split()
vprint("%d messages are matching filter" % len(message_list))
@@ -1351,7 +1351,8 @@ def _archive_imap(mailbox_name, final_archive_name):
result, response = imap_srv.fetch('1:*', '(RFC822.SIZE)')
if result != 'OK': unexpected_error("Failed to fetch message sizes")
# response is a list with entries like '1016 (RFC822.SIZE 3118)',
- # where the first number is the message id, the second is the size.
+ # where the first number is the message sequence number, the second is
+ # the size.
for x in response:
msn, blurb, msg_size = x.split()
msg_size = int(msg_size.rstrip(')'))
@@ -1361,8 +1362,8 @@ def _archive_imap(mailbox_name, final_archive_name):
if not options.dry_run:
if not options.delete_old_mail:
- for msg_id in message_list:
- result, response = imap_srv.fetch(msg_id, '(RFC822 FLAGS)')
+ for msn in message_list:
+ result, response = imap_srv.fetch(msn, '(RFC822 FLAGS)')
if result != 'OK': unexpected_error("Failed to fetch message")
if "\r\n" == os.linesep:
msg_str = response[0][1]