[Gmail]/All Mail has different name for different Language

[Jeff Girard]

I got me too the same error message than the others (username or password incorrect), but the trace is different:

Traceback (most recent call last):te size]
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 484, in <module>
    doBackup(options, TerminalProgress())
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 454, in doBackup
    backup.backupTo([options.start_date, options.end_date], overwrite, include_labels, exclude_labels)
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 294, in backupTo
    self.doBackup(date_range, include_labels, exclude_labels)
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 287, in doBackup
    self.fetchAllMail(date_range, exclude_labels)
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 253, in fetchAllMail
    self.fetchMailByLabel('[Gmail]/All Mail', date_range)
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 160, in fetchMailByLabel
    date_range = self.searchByDate(*date_range)
  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 118, in searchByDate
    ret, result = self.gmail.search(None, '(SINCE "%s") (BEFORE "%s")' % (start, end))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 620, in search
    typ, dat = self._simple_command(name, *criteria)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 1060, in _simple_command
    return self._command_complete(name, self._command(name, *args))
  File "/usr/lib/python2.6/imaplib.py", line 818, in _command
    ', '.join(Commands[name])))
error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED
username or password incorrect

[Joseph Wen (wenjoseph)]

Hi:

I have uploaded a new version that I hope will solve the problem:
http://launchpad.net/backup-gmail/trunk/backup-gmail-0.1/+download/backup-gmail-0.1.2.tar.gz

[Jeff Girard (jef-zapata)]

I've got two errors, which I can resolve by changing two thing in code:

  File "./backup_gmail.py", line 158, in getGmailPrefix
    raise SelectMailBoxError('<All Mail>', labels)
NameError: global name 'SelectMailBoxError' is not define

- It is member of self so I just corrected it locally to go further, I got the error below:

SelectMailBoxError: MailBox [<All Mail>] does not exists.

- I'm using a french version of Gmail, and "All Mail" = "Tous les messages". I changed this and now everything is working very well!

I let you correct the code from your side, thanks a lot for this nice utilities also!

[Joseph Wen (wenjoseph)]

Thanks for your feedback.
I will try to address the problem of different language.

[Jorge González (jag2kn)]

the problem are the internationalization

I print the start and end:
u'21-abr-2002', u'20-abr-2010'

april 21 in spanish

I change:

ret, result = self.gmail.search(None, '(SINCE "%s") (BEFORE "%s")' % (start, end))
to
ret, result = self.gmail.search(None, '(SINCE "%s") (BEFORE "%s")' % (u'21-apr-2002', u'20-apr-2010'))

and run ok, then the problem are in my case the language date of start and end.