Package twisted :: Package protocols :: Module imap4 :: Class IMailbox
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Class IMailbox

Interface --+    
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 IMailboxInfo --+
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               IMailbox


Method Summary
  addListener(self, listener)
Add a mailbox change listener
Deferred addMessage(self, message, flags, date)
Add the given message to this mailbox.
  destroy(self)
Called before this mailbox is deleted, permanently.
list or Deferred expunge(self)
Remove all messages flagged \Deleted.
Any iterable of two-tuples of message sequence numbers and implementors of IMessage. fetch(self, messages, uid)
Retrieve one or more messages.
int getMessageCount(self)
Return the number of messages in this mailbox.
int getRecentCount(self)
Return the number of messages with the 'Recent' flag.
int getUID(self, message)
Return the UID of a message in the mailbox
int getUIDNext(self)
Return the likely UID for the next message added to this mailbox.
int getUIDValidity(self)
Return the unique validity identifier for this mailbox.
int getUnseenCount(self)
Return the number of messages with the 'Unseen' flag.
int isWriteable(self)
Get the read/write status of the mailbox.
  removeListener(self, listener)
Remove a mailbox change listener
dict or Deferred requestStatus(self, names)
Return status information about this mailbox.
dict or Deferred store(self, messages, flags, mode, uid)
Set the flags of one or more messages.
    Inherited from IMailboxInfo
list of str getFlags(self)
Return the flags defined in this mailbox
str getHierarchicalDelimiter(self)
Get the character which delimits namespaces for in this mailbox.

Method Details

addListener(self, listener)

Add a mailbox change listener
Parameters:
listener - An object to add to the set of those which will be notified when the contents of this mailbox change.
           (type=Any object which implements IMailboxListener)

addMessage(self, message, flags=(), date=None)

Add the given message to this mailbox.
Parameters:
message - The RFC822 formatted message
           (type=A file-like object)
flags - The flags to associate with this message
           (type=Any iterable of str)
date - If specified, the date to associate with this message.
           (type=str)
Returns:
A deferred whose callback is invoked with the message id if the message is added successfully and whose errback is invoked otherwise.
           (type=Deferred)
Raises:
ReadOnlyMailbox - Raised if this Mailbox is not open for read-write.

destroy(self)

Called before this mailbox is deleted, permanently.

If necessary, all resources held by this mailbox should be cleaned up here. This function _must_ set the \Noselect flag on this mailbox.

expunge(self)

Remove all messages flagged \Deleted.
Returns:
The list of message sequence numbers which were deleted, or a Deferred whose callback will be invoked with such a list.
           (type=list or Deferred)
Raises:
ReadOnlyMailbox - Raised if this Mailbox is not open for read-write.

fetch(self, messages, uid)

Retrieve one or more messages.
Parameters:
messages - The identifiers of messages to retrieve information about
           (type=MessageSet)
uid - If true, the IDs specified in the query are UIDs; otherwise they are message sequence IDs.
           (type=bool)
Returns:
Any iterable of two-tuples of message sequence numbers and implementors of IMessage.

getMessageCount(self)

Return the number of messages in this mailbox.
Returns:
int

getRecentCount(self)

Return the number of messages with the 'Recent' flag.
Returns:
int

getUID(self, message)

Return the UID of a message in the mailbox
Parameters:
message - The message sequence number
           (type=int)
Returns:
The UID of the message.
           (type=int)

getUIDNext(self)

Return the likely UID for the next message added to this mailbox.
Returns:
int

getUIDValidity(self)

Return the unique validity identifier for this mailbox.
Returns:
int

getUnseenCount(self)

Return the number of messages with the 'Unseen' flag.
Returns:
int

isWriteable(self)

Get the read/write status of the mailbox.
Returns:
A true value if write permission is allowed, a false value otherwise.
           (type=int)

removeListener(self, listener)

Remove a mailbox change listener
Parameters:
listener - The object to remove from the set of listeners.
           (type=Any object previously added to and not removed from this mailbox as a listener.)
Raises:
ValueError - Raised when the given object is not a listener for this mailbox.

requestStatus(self, names)

Return status information about this mailbox.

Mailboxes which do not intend to do any special processing to generate the return value, statusRequestHelper can be used to build the dictionary by calling the other interface methods which return the data for each name.
Parameters:
names - The status names to return information regarding. The possible values for each name are: MESSAGES, RECENT, UIDNEXT, UIDVALIDITY, UNSEEN.
           (type=Any iterable)
Returns:
A dictionary containing status information about the requested names is returned. If the process of looking this information up would be costly, a deferred whose callback will eventually be passed this dictionary is returned instead.
           (type=dict or Deferred)

store(self, messages, flags, mode, uid)

Set the flags of one or more messages.
Parameters:
messages - The identifiers of the messages to set the flags of.
           (type=A MessageSet object with the list of messages requested)
flags - The flags to set, unset, or add.
           (type=sequence of str)
mode - If mode is -1, these flags should be removed from the specified messages. If mode is 1, these flags should be added to the specified messages. If mode is 0, all existing flags should be cleared and these flags should be added.
           (type=-1, 0, or 1)
uid - If true, the IDs specified in the query are UIDs; otherwise they are message sequence IDs.
           (type=bool)
Returns:
A dict mapping message sequence numbers to sequences of str representing the flags set on the message after this operation has been performed, or a Deferred whose callback will be invoked with such a dict.
           (type=dict or Deferred)
Raises:
ReadOnlyMailbox - Raised if this mailbox is not open for read-write.

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