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Diffstat (limited to 'archivemail.py')
| -rwxr-xr-x | archivemail.py | 9 |
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] |