twisted.mail.pop3.IMailbox : API documentation

Instance Variables	loginDelay	The number of seconds between allowed logins for the user associated with this mailbox. None (type: `int` )
	messageExpiration	The number of days messages in this mailbox will remain on the server before being deleted. (type: `int` )

Method	listMessages	Retrieve the size of one or more messages.
Method	getMessage	Retrieve a file-like object for a particular message.
Method	getUidl	Get a unique identifier for a particular message.
Method	deleteMessage	Delete a particular message.
Method	undeleteMessages	Undelete any messages which have been marked for deletion since the most recent `sync` call.
Method	sync	Perform checkpointing.

def listMessages(index=None): (source)

Retrieve the size of one or more messages.

Parameters	index	The number of the message for which to retrieve the size (starting at 0), or None to retrieve the size of all messages. (type: `int` or `None` )
Returns	The number of octets in the specified message, or an iterable of integers representing the number of octets in all the messages. Any value which would have referred to a deleted message should be set to 0. (type: `int` or any iterable of `int` or a `Deferred` which fires with one of these. )
Raises	ValueError	if `index` is greater than the index of any message in the mailbox.

def getMessage(index): (source)

Retrieve a file-like object for a particular message.

Parameters	index	The number of the message to retrieve (type: `int` )
Returns	A file containing the message data with lines delimited by `\n`. (type: A file-like object )

def getUidl(index): (source)

Get a unique identifier for a particular message.

Parameters	index	The number of the message for which to retrieve a UIDL (type: `int` )
Returns	A string of printable characters uniquely identifying for all time the specified message. (type: `str` )
Raises	ValueError	if `index` is greater than the index of any message in the mailbox.

def deleteMessage(index): (source)

Delete a particular message.

This must not change the number of messages in this mailbox. Further requests for the size of deleted messages should return 0. Further requests for the message itself may raise an exception.

Parameters index The number of the message to delete. (type: int )

def undeleteMessages(): (source)

Undelete any messages which have been marked for deletion since the most recent sync call.

Any message which can be undeleted should be returned to its original position in the message sequence and retain its original UID.

t.m.p.IMailbox(Interface) : interface documentation