hd1/unitsImap

class Imap:
    def GET(self, username, servername):
        ret = []
        params = web.input()

        logging.debug('HTTP Parameters: {0}'.format(web.input()))
        passwd = params['password']

        if not params.has_key('ssl'):
            server = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(servername)
        else:
            server = imaplib.IMAP4(servername)

        rv, data = server.login(username, passwd)
        logging.debug('Connected!')
        rv, data = server.list()
        rv, data = server.select('inbox')
        rv, data = server.search(None, 'ALL')
        logging.debug('Found Messages!')
        for msg_number in data[0].split():
            entry = {}
            msg = server.fetch(msg_number, '(RFC822)')[1][0][1]

            message = email.message_from_string(msg)

            decoded_subject = message['Subject']
            entry['subject'] = decoded_subject.decode('utf-8').encode('ascii', errors='ignore')

            date_tuple = email.utils.parsedate_tz(message.get('Date', message.get('Received', None)))
            entry['date'] =  datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(email.utils.mktime_tz(date_tuple)).strftime("%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S")
            entry['body'] = ''
            if message.is_multipart():
                for payload in message.get_payload():
                    entry['body'] = entry['body'] + str(payload)
            else:
                entry['body'] = str(message.get_payload())
            ret.append(entry)

        server.close()

        # always compress, as output will be large
        web.header('Content-Encoding', 'gzip')
        gzip_buffer = StringIO.StringIO()
        gzip_file = gzip.GzipFile(mode='wb',
                                  fileobj=gzip_buffer)
        gzip_file.write(json.dumps(ret, indent=4))
        gzip_file.close()
        ret = gzip_buffer.getvalue()

        return ret