More resilience against unexistent IMAP directory

[vletoux]

Thanks for this code which is helpfull

It took me 2 hours to figure out my IMAP directory was misspelled in the config file.
Indeed, when the IMAP directory is not ok, the following exception occurs:

[INFO]: Connected to IMAP server.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./imap2thehive.py", line 548, in <module>
    main()
  File "./imap2thehive.py", line 544, in main
    readMail(mailConnect())
  File "./imap2thehive.py", line 402, in readMail
    typ, dat = mbox.search(config['imapFolder'], '(UNSEEN)')
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/imaplib.py", line 721, in search
    typ, dat = self._simple_command(name, 'CHARSET', charset, *criteria)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/imaplib.py", line 1196, in _simple_command
    return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/imaplib.py", line 944, in _command
    ', '.join(Commands[name])))
imaplib.error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED

I'm using O365

It occurs here:
https://github.com/xme/dockers/blob/master/imap2thehive/imap2thehive.py#L402

I manage to understand my mistake by adding the code:

for i in mbox.list()[1]:
        l = i.decode().split(' "/" ')
        print(l[0] + " = " + l[1])

Do dump the folder list.

I'm not a python guy so I cannot push a PR, but my suggestion would be just before selecting the folder, check in mbox.list() if there is an item matching the name (if there is an exception or every time)

And to add a comment in the config file that if you aim at a subfolder name have to prefix it like INBOX\Folder and that the INBOX folder is usually independent of the language.

[SantiagoSerrao]

Hi!! i have the same error . Where do you insert that piece of code??

Thanks!

[vletoux]

before the line where the error occurs ...

[SantiagoSerrao]

Thanks!!!
I do that but i have an other error
File "imap2thehive.py", line 405
typ, dat = mbox.search(None, '(UNSEEN)')