MailSearch

MailSearch[folder,assoc]

searches the specified mail folder for messages with properties matching elements in assoc.

MailSearch[assoc]

searches the current default mail inbox.

MailSearch[]

gives the list of unread messages in the current default mail inbox.

Details and Options

  • MailSearch[] does not include messages that have been marked for deletion.
  • Mail folders are specified as follows:
  • MailFolder[…]a single mail folder
    {MailFolder[…],…}list of mail folders
    MailServerConnection[…]all mail folders for a particular mail server connection
  • The current default mail inbox is as specified in $IncomingMailSettings.
  • Basic search keys to use in assoc include:
  • "From"message sender
    "To"message addressee(s)
    "Cc"recipients copied on the message
    "Bcc"recipients blind-copied on the message
  • Date-related search keys include:
  • "SentBefore"messages sent before the specified date
    "SentOn"messages sent on the specified date
    "SentAfter"messages sent after the specified date
  • Size-related search keys include:
  • "SizeLessThan"messages smaller than the specified byte size
    "SizeGreaterThan"messages larger than the specified byte size
  • Metadata-related keys include:
  • "Flags"protocol-defined flags (e.g. "Answered", "Flagged", "Draft", …)
    "Tags"user-defined tags
  • Other keys include:
  • "Body"full text search for the message body
    "Text"full text search for any field
  • Keys such as "To" can have values in which separate items are either given in a list or as parts of a string separated by commas.
  • MailSearch has the following options:
  • MaxItems Automaticmaximum number of mail items to return
    TimeConstraint Automatictime constraint for retrieving mail items
  • With the setting TimeConstraint->Automatic, MailSearch running with a notebook front end will typically terminate with a message if the time constraint is exceeded. It will keep going if there is no notebook front end.

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Connect to the configured mail server:

Open the "Example" folder:

Search for messages received since yesterday:

Get individual complete mail items:

Options  (2)

MaxItems  (1)

Connect to a server:

Open the "Junk" folder:

Search for a common term in junk emails:

Limit the results to 10 items:

TimeConstraint  (1)

Connect to a server:

Open the "Junk" folder:

Search for a common term in junk emails:

Limit the search to 0.25 second:

Neat Examples  (1)

Connect to a server:

Open the "Junk" folder:

Search for unread messages and return the sender:

Find the number of messages from the most prolific email sender:

Make a histogram of the distribution of the number of emails sent by the sender:

Wolfram Research (2018), MailSearch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html.

Text

Wolfram Research (2018), MailSearch, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html.

CMS

Wolfram Language. 2018. "MailSearch." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2018). MailSearch. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_mailsearch, author="Wolfram Research", title="{MailSearch}", year="2018", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html}", note=[Accessed: 18-April-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_mailsearch, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={MailSearch}, year={2018}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/MailSearch.html}, note=[Accessed: 18-April-2024 ]}