Open other mailbox

[przemyslawpluta]

How can you open other mail boxes after the login into the main account? Thanks.

[mscdex]

Just call openBox() again. You can only have one mailbox open at a time per connection though.

[przemyslawpluta]

Just to clarify the logged in user can access other mailboxes from within their account so after the initial login they can select another one newmailbox@mail.com but with openBox() you can select a diffident directory but not a different mailbox?

[mscdex]

openBox() opens a mailbox within your account. You can get a list of them via getBoxes(). If you want to reach a mailbox on another account, then you'll have to either re-connect or create a separate connection and log in as that account.

So you might do: openBox('INBOX', ....); and then later on do openBox('Work', ....);, etc.

[przemyslawpluta]

Example I'm logging in as usera account but need to access inbox for userb http://goo.gl/yrmgR

[mscdex]

Ok so if you have separate accounts like that you need two separate connections because there is no way (AFAIK) to change users within a connection once you've logged in.

[przemyslawpluta]

Second accound is a shared mailbox but I've got full access to it mailbox but I can access it only after logging into the first one. When I target second mailbox directly with the crudentials of the first one I get login failed.

[mscdex]

What does imap.namespaces contain?

[przemyslawpluta]

After imap.connect logging into the first one namespaces: { personal: [ [Object] ], other: null, shared: null }

[mscdex]

Does imap.getBoxes(...) return the mailboxes for both 'user a' and 'user b' ?

[przemyslawpluta]

No. After imap.connect to 'user a' run imap.getBoxes(...) and lists all the directories for 'user a' with imap.status(...) then after the last directory

assert.js:102
  throw new assert.AssertionError({
        ^
AssertionError: false == true
    at CleartextStream.ondata (/pathtoproject/node_modules/imap/lib/imap.js:594:9)
    at CleartextStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at CleartextStream.CryptoStream._push (tls.js:540:12)
    at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:898:20)
    at EncryptedStream.CryptoStream.write (tls.js:285:13)
    at Socket.ondata (stream.js:38:26)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:397:14)

[mscdex]

Can you post the code you're using and additionally set debug: console.log in the constructor and post the resulting output before the error occurs?

[przemyslawpluta]

var Imap = require('imap');

var imap = new Imap({
    user: '',
    password: '',
    host: '',
    port: 993,
    secure: true
});

imap.connect(function(err) { 
    if (err) throw err;
    imap.getBoxes(function (err, boxes) {
        if(err) throw err;
        for(var key in boxes) {
            console.log('status: ' + key);
            imap.status(key, function(err, box) {
                console.log(key, err, box);
            });
        }
    });
});

just before the assert fail

<== 'A6 OK LIST completed.\r\n'

[parsing incoming] saw tagged response
status: Calendar
...
...
status: Tasks

==> A7 STATUS "Calendar" (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY)

<== '* STATUS Calendar (MESSAGES 249 RECENT 249 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 31741) \r\nA7 OK STATUS completed.\r\n'

[parsing incoming] saw unexpected untagged response: '* STATUS Calendar (MESSAGES 249 RECENT 249 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 31741) '

[mscdex]

Hrmm, I cannot seem to reproduce this with the latest node-imap version. What node-imap version are you using?

Also, you should probably use something like this if your account has a hierarchy:

  imap.getBoxes(function more(err, boxes, path) {
    if (err) throw err;
    if (!path)
      path = '';
    for (var key in boxes) {
      if (boxes[key].children)
        more(undefined, boxes[key].children, path + key + boxes[key].delimiter);
      else {
        console.log('status: ' + key);
        imap.status(path + key, function(err, box) {
          console.log(key, err, box);
        });
      }
    }
  });

[przemyslawpluta]

Versions node@0.8.18 npm@1.2.2 imap@0.7.7 and using code:

imap.connect(function(err) {
  if(err) throw err;
    imap.getBoxes(function more(err, boxes, path) {
        if (err) throw err;
        if (!path)
          path = '';
        for (var key in boxes) {
          if (boxes[key].children)
            more(undefined, boxes[key].children, path + key + boxes[key].delimiter);
          else {
            console.log('status: ' + key);
            imap.status(path + key, function(err, box) {
              console.log(key, err, box);
            });
          }
        }
    });
});

assert fail after last directory for 'user a' ...

==> A7 STATUS "Calendar/Inbox/Inbox/info" (MESSAGES RECENT UNSEEN UIDVALIDITY)

<== '* STATUS "Calendar/Inbox/Inbox/info" (MESSAGES 0 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 182636) \r\nA7 OK STATUS completed.\r\n'

[parsing incoming] saw unexpected untagged response: '* STATUS "Calendar/Inbox/Inbox/info" (MESSAGES 0 RECENT 0 UNSEEN 0 UIDVALIDITY 182636) '

assert.js:102
  throw new assert.AssertionError({
        ^
AssertionError: false == true
    at CleartextStream.ondata (/path/node_modules/imap/lib/imap.js:594:9)
    at CleartextStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at CleartextStream.CryptoStream._push (tls.js:540:12)
    at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:898:20)
    at EncryptedStream.CryptoStream.write (tls.js:285:13)
    at Socket.ondata (stream.js:38:26)
    at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:96:17)
    at TCP.onread (net.js:397:14)

[mscdex]

Try the master branch now and let me know how that does/doesn't work.

[przemyslawpluta]

Based on the master branch it lists all the directories for the 'user a' there is no assert fail, goes idle after last directory

<== 'A46 OK STATUS completed.\r\n'

[parsing incoming] saw tagged response
Tasks null { name: 'Tasks',
  uidvalidity: 31770,
  messages: { total: 0, new: 0, unseen: 0 } }

==> IDLE IDLE

<== '+ IDLE accepted, awaiting DONE command.\r\n'

[parsing incoming] saw continuation response

... it doesn't list anything for 'user b'

[mscdex]

Ok, so 'user a' has no direct access to the mailboxes for 'user b.' The only way is to log in as 'user b' and access the mailboxes from there.

[przemyslawpluta]

Thanks.