Problems with IMAP in Gmail with Python

I have a problem with IMAP in Python 2.7 For testing purposes, I have created foobar306@gmail.com with the password testing123testing I am following this tutorial and typed this into my Python Iteractive Shell:

    Python 2.7.2 (default, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import imaplib
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('foobar306@gmail.com', 'testing123testing')
mail.list()
# Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.
>>> 

Nothing happens, not even error messages. Note: I have enabled IMAP in Gmail Thanks, -tim

Update: In response to this comment:

Did you do the next section after the code you quoted above? – Amber

I tried this:

    Python 2.7.2 (d开发者_StackOverflow中文版efault, Jun 12 2011, 15:08:59) [MSC v.1500 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
Type "copyright", "credits" or "license()" for more information.
>>> import imaplib
mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
mail.login('myusername@gmail.com', 'mypassword')
mail.list()
# Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.
result, data = mail.search(None, "ALL")

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] # here's the body, which is raw text of the whole email
# including headers and alternate payloads

>>>

and it still did nothing

It seems to work for me; I created a sarnoldwashere folder via the python API:

>>> mail.create("sarnoldwashere")
('OK', ['Success'])
>>> mail.list()
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Personal"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Receipts"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Travel"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Work"',
'(\\Noselect \\HasChildren) "/" "[Gmail]"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"',
'(\\HasChildren \\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"',
'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "sarnoldwashere"'])
>>> mail.logout()
('BYE', ['LOGOUT Requested'])

It ought to still be there in the web interface. (Unless someone else deletes it in the meantime.)

Edit to include the full contents of the session, even including the boring bits where I re-learn The Way of Python:

>>> import imaplib
>>> mail = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL('imap.gmail.com')
>>> mail.login('foobar306@gmail.com', 'testing123testing')
('OK', ['foobar306@gmail.com .. .. authenticated (Success)'])
>>> mail.list()
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Personal"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Receipts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Travel"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Work"', '(\\Noselect \\HasChildren) "/" "[Gmail]"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"', '(\\HasChildren \\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"'])
>>> # Out: list of "folders" aka labels in gmail.
... mail.select("inbox") # connect to inbox.
('OK', ['3'])
>>> mail.dir()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 214, in __getattr__
    raise AttributeError("Unknown IMAP4 command: '%s'" % attr)
AttributeError: Unknown IMAP4 command: 'dir'
>>> dir(mail)
['PROTOCOL_VERSION', '_CRAM_MD5_AUTH', '__doc__', '__getattr__', '__init__', '__module__', '_append_untagged', '_check_bye', '_checkquote', '_cmd_log', '_cmd_log_idx', '_cmd_log_len', '_command', '_command_complete', '_dump_ur', '_get_line', '_get_response', '_get_tagged_response', '_log', '_match', '_mesg', '_new_tag', '_quote', '_simple_command', '_untagged_response', 'abort', 'append', 'authenticate', 'capabilities', 'capability', 'certfile', 'check', 'close', 'continuation_response', 'copy', 'create', 'debug', 'delete', 'deleteacl', 'error', 'expunge', 'fetch', 'getacl', 'getannotation', 'getquota', 'getquotaroot', 'host', 'is_readonly', 'keyfile', 'list', 'literal', 'login', 'login_cram_md5', 'logout', 'lsub', 'mo', 'mustquote', 'myrights', 'namespace', 'noop', 'open', 'partial', 'port', 'print_log', 'proxyauth', 'read', 'readline', 'readonly', 'recent', 'rename', 'response', 'search', 'select', 'send', 'setacl', 'setannotation', 'setquota', 'shutdown', 'sock', 'socket', 'sort', 'ssl', 'sslobj', 'state', 'status', 'store', 'subscribe', 'tagged_commands', 'tagnum', 'tagpre', 'tagre', 'thread', 'uid', 'unsubscribe', 'untagged_responses', 'welcome', 'xatom']
>>> dir(mail).sort()
>>> d=dir(mail)
>>> d.sort()
>>> d
['PROTOCOL_VERSION', '_CRAM_MD5_AUTH', '__doc__', '__getattr__', '__init__', '__module__', '_append_untagged', '_check_bye', '_checkquote', '_cmd_log', '_cmd_log_idx', '_cmd_log_len', '_command', '_command_complete', '_dump_ur', '_get_line', '_get_response', '_get_tagged_response', '_log', '_match', '_mesg', '_new_tag', '_quote', '_simple_command', '_untagged_response', 'abort', 'append', 'authenticate', 'capabilities', 'capability', 'certfile', 'check', 'close', 'continuation_response', 'copy', 'create', 'debug', 'delete', 'deleteacl', 'error', 'expunge', 'fetch', 'getacl', 'getannotation', 'getquota', 'getquotaroot', 'host', 'is_readonly', 'keyfile', 'list', 'literal', 'login', 'login_cram_md5', 'logout', 'lsub', 'mo', 'mustquote', 'myrights', 'namespace', 'noop', 'open', 'partial', 'port', 'print_log', 'proxyauth', 'read', 'readline', 'readonly', 'recent', 'rename', 'response', 'search', 'select', 'send', 'setacl', 'setannotation', 'setquota', 'shutdown', 'sock', 'socket', 'sort', 'ssl', 'sslobj', 'state', 'status', 'store', 'subscribe', 'tagged_commands', 'tagnum', 'tagpre', 'tagre', 'thread', 'uid', 'unsubscribe', 'untagged_responses', 'welcome', 'xatom']
>>> mail.list()
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Personal"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Receipts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Travel"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Work"', '(\\Noselect \\HasChildren) "/" "[Gmail]"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"', '(\\HasChildren \\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"'])
>>> mail.select("INBOX") # connect to inbox.
('OK', ['3'])
>>> mail.list()
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Personal"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Receipts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Travel"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Work"', '(\\Noselect \\HasChildren) "/" "[Gmail]"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"', '(\\HasChildren \\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"'])
>>> mail.list("INBOX")
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"'])
>>> mail.open("INBOX")
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 1149, in open
    self.sock = socket.create_connection((host, port))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/socket.py", line 547, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
socket.gaierror: [Errno -2] Name or service not known
>>> mail.recent()
('OK', ['0'])
>>> mail.create("sarnoldwashere")
('OK', ['Success'])
>>> mail.list()
('OK', ['(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "INBOX"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Personal"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Receipts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Travel"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Work"', '(\\Noselect \\HasChildren) "/" "[Gmail]"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Spam"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Starred"', '(\\HasChildren \\HasNoChildren) "/" "[Gmail]/Trash"', '(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "sarnoldwashere"'])
>>> mail.logout()
('BYE', ['LOGOUT Requested'])
>>>