placing: m.select() on the line before the search solves this problem.

m.select()

I get a error like:
imaplib.error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED

any suggestions?
tx

hugo

num = len(pop3.list()[1])

if num > 0:
for i in range(1, num+1):
str = string.join(pop3.top(i, 55)[1], “\n”)
msg = Parser().parsestr(str)
n=0
text=”
#Check if any attachments at all
if msg.get_content_maintype() != ‘multipart’:
print ‘No attachments in message’
return

for part in msg.walk():
if n==1:
text=part.get_payload()
n+=1
if part.get_content_maintype() == ‘multipart’:
continue
if part.get(‘Content-Disposition’) is None:
continue
filename = part.get_filename()
counter = 1
if not filename:
filename = ‘part-%03d%s’ % (counter, ‘bin’)
counter += 1
att_path = os.path.join(detach_dir, filename)
if not os.path.isfile(att_path) :
fp = open(att_path, ‘wb’)
fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=True))
fp.close()

From=msg['From']
Subject=msg['subject']
#parse ‘from’ text
if From.find(‘<')!=-1:
start=From.find('’)
From=From[(start+1):end]
body=text.split(‘\n’)
emailBody=text
#pop3.dele(i)

It seems to work fine, but when I look at the resulting file (XLS file), it’s 1k big and can’t even be opened. What am I doing wrong?

I’m trying to do something similar but I get an error:

In [67]: resp, items = m.search(None, searchString)

(…)

error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED

Do you know what might happened??