When your search can return more than one message, you need to make sure to read everything from the messages
channel, otherwise the program will hang. So instead of:
msg := <-messages
loop over the channel like so:
for msg := range messages {
}
Here's my working sample, which pulls connection details from the environment. It's a modified version of the example from emersion's imap lib:
package main
import (
"crypto/tls"
"flag"
"fmt"
"log"
"os"
"time"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap"
"github.com/emersion/go-imap/client"
)
func main() {
hours := flag.Int("hours", 24, "look this many hours in the past for messages")
flag.Parse()
if *hours > 0 {
*hours = *hours * -1
}
host := os.Getenv("IMAP_HOST")
port := os.Getenv("IMAP_PORT")
user := os.Getenv("IMAP_USER")
pass := os.Getenv("IMAP_PASS")
tlsn := os.Getenv("IMAP_TLS_SERVERNAME")
if port == "" {
port = "993"
}
connStr := fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s", host, port)
tlsc := &tls.Config{}
if tlsn != "" {
tlsc.ServerName = tlsn
}
c, err := client.DialTLS(connStr, tlsc)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Connected")
defer c.Logout()
if err := c.Login(user, pass); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Authenticated")
mbox, err := c.Select("INBOX", false)
if err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
log.Println("Flags for INBOX:", mbox.Flags)
criteria := imap.NewSearchCriteria()
//criteria.WithFlags = []string{imap.SeenFlag}
criteria.Since = time.Now().Add(time.Duration(*hours) * time.Hour)
uids, err := c.Search(criteria)
if err != nil {
log.Println(err)
}
seqset := new(imap.SeqSet)
seqset.AddNum(uids...)
log.Printf("Search complete, found %d messages", len(uids))
section := &imap.BodySectionName{}
items := []imap.FetchItem{imap.FetchEnvelope, imap.FetchFlags, imap.FetchInternalDate, section.FetchItem()}
messages := make(chan *imap.Message)
done := make(chan error, 1)
go func() {
done <- c.Fetch(seqset, items, messages)
log.Println("Fetch complete")
}()
for msg := range messages {
if msg != nil {
log.Printf("got message with address %p
", msg)
} else {
log.Println("no messages matched criteria")
}
}
if err := <-done; err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}