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Problem with email date search

See original GitHub issue

I’ll start by saying that I’m almost sure I’m not using the API properly.

In one of my GMail accounts, I have an unread email from March 22, 2015. I’m trying to read its contents, but with no luck. The code is:

var lastDate = new Date(2015, 2, 20); // 2 days before the email's date
imap.search([  ['SINCE', lastDate] ], function(err, results) {
    if (err) throw err;

    var f = imap.seq.fetch(results, {
        bodies: 'TEXT'
    });

    f.on('message', function(msg, seqno) {
        // this never fires
    });
    [...]
});

I also tried with string representation of the date, with identical results. If I set the date long enough in the past, I can see this email in the list of few emails that belong to the time interval.

Any ideas?

In the debug log, I don’t see any request like the one below, which is extracted from a date filter from January until March.

'* 555 FETCH (X-GM-THRID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X-GM-MSGID XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX X-GM-LABELS ("\\\\Important" "\\\\Sent") UID 562 MODSEQ (XXXXX) INTERNALDATE "31-Jan-2015 20:00:22 +0000" FLAGS (\\Seen) BODY[TEXT] {14}'

Debug info:

[connection] Connected to host
<= '* OK Gimap ready for requests from <IP> <HASH>'
=> 'A0 CAPABILITY'
<= '* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 XYZZY SASL-IR AUTH=XOAUTH AUTH=XOAUTH2 AUTH=PLAIN AUTH=PLAIN-CLIENTTOKEN'
<= 'A0 OK Thats all she wrote! <HASH>'
=> 'A1 LOGIN "my_user@gmail.com" "password"'
<= '* CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT'
<= 'A1 OK my_user@gmail.com authenticated (Success)'
=> 'A2 NAMESPACE'
<= '* NAMESPACE (("" "/")) NIL NIL'
<= 'A2 OK Success'
=> 'A3 LIST "" ""'
<= '* LIST (\\Noselect) "/" "/"'
<= 'A3 OK Success'
=> 'A4 EXAMINE "<NAME_OF_INBOX>" (CONDSTORE)'
<= '* FLAGS (\\Answered \\Flagged \\Draft \\Deleted \\Seen $Phishing $NotJunk NotJunk $NotPhishing)'
<= '* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS ()] Flags permitted.'
<= '* OK [UIDVALIDITY 12] UIDs valid.'
<= '* 636 EXISTS'
<= '* 0 RECENT'
<= '* OK [UIDNEXT 660] Predicted next UID.'
<= '* OK [HIGHESTMODSEQ 111910]'
<= 'A4 OK [READ-ONLY] <NAME_OF_INBOX> selected. (Success)'
=> 'A5 UID SEARCH SINCE 20-Mar-2015'
<= '* SEARCH 659'
<= 'A5 OK SEARCH completed (Success)'
=> 'A6 FETCH 659 (X-GM-THRID X-GM-MSGID X-GM-LABELS MODSEQ UID FLAGS INTERNALDATE BODY.PEEK[TEXT])'
<= 'A6 OK Success'
=> 'IDLE IDLE'
<= '+ idling'
=> DONE
<= 'IDLE OK IDLE terminated (Success)'
=> 'A7 LOGOUT'
<= '* BYE LOGOUT Requested'
<= 'A7 OK 73 good day (Success)'
[connection] Ended
[connection] Closed

Thank you

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mscdexcommented, Mar 22, 2015

In the previous debug output you posted:

=> 'A5 UID SEARCH SINCE 20-Mar-2015'
<= '* SEARCH 659'
<= 'A5 OK SEARCH completed (Success)'

That shows you used a date of March 20, and it found 1 message that matched your search criteria with a UID of 659. However you then try to fetch a message with a sequence number of 659 instead of the message with a UID of 659. Since you searched for UIDs, you need to use imap.fetch(uid, ...); instead of imap.seq.fetch(uid, ...)

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mscdexcommented, Mar 23, 2015

No problem