How to search specific e-mail using python imaplib.IMAP4.search()

Question

 import imaplib,time
 T=time.time()
 M=imaplib.IMAP4_SSL("imap.gmail.com")
 M.login(user,psw)
 M.select() 
 typ, data = M.search(None, 'UNSEEN SINCE T')
 for num in string.split(data[0]):
    try :
       typ, data=M.fetch(num,'(RFC822)')
       msg=email.message_from_string(data[0][1])
       print msg["From"]
       print msg["Subject"]  
       print msg["Date"]  
   except Exception,e:
      print "hello world"
M.close()
M.logout()

ERROR:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mail.py", line 37, in <module>
 typ, data = M.search(None, 'UNSEEN SINCE T')
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 627, in search
 typ, dat = self._simple_command(name, *criteria)
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 1070, in _simple_command
 return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
 File "/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.py", line 905, in _command_complete
 raise self.error('%s command error: %s %s' % (name, typ, data))
 imaplib.error: SEARCH command error: BAD ['Parse command error']

I want to search e-mail since a specific time . Here is my code .But it runs error.Can you give me some advice on how to solve it.thanks a lot!

Answer 1

import imaplib

mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('[email protected]', 'test')
mail.list()
# Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.

result, data = mail.search(None, '(FROM "anjali sinha" SUBJECT "test")' )

ids = data[0] # data is a list.
id_list = ids.split() # ids is a space separated string
latest_email_id = id_list[-1] # get the latest

result, data = mail.fetch(latest_email_id, "(RFC822)") # fetch the email body (RFC822)             for the given ID

raw_email = data[0][1] # here's the body, which is raw text of the whole email
# including headers and alternate payloads

print raw_email

this eventually worked for me specyfing labels with conditions