mRpostman (version 0.3.1)

search_younger_than: Search Within seconds

Description

Searches for messages within a number of seconds from the server<U+2019>s current time to fetch messages.

Usage

search_younger_than(imapconf, seconds, negate = FALSE, by = "MSN",
  flag = NULL, esearch = FALSE, return_imapconf = TRUE,
  retries = 2)

Arguments

imapconf

An object of class imapconf generated with configure_imap and with a mbox item added after a mailbox selection with select_mailbox.

seconds

An integer specifying the number of seconds to be used as search criterion.

negate

If TRUE, negates the search and seeks for "NOT search_criterion". Default is FALSE.

by

Which id (MSN or UID) to use when searching for messages. "MSN" or message squence number is a message's relative position to the older message in the mailbox. It may change after deleting or moving messages. For instance, if a message is deleted, message sequence numbers are reordered to fill the gap. "UID" or unique identifier is always the same during the life cycle of a message. Default is "MSN".

flag

Optional parameter that adds a flag filter to the search. Use flag_options to list the common flags used by IMAP servers. Default is NULL.

esearch

A logical. Default is FALSE. If the IMAP server has ESEARCH capability, it can be used to optimize search results. It allows to condense results to message sets to cut down on transmission costs, e.g. 1:5 instead of writing ids individually such as 1,2,3,4,5. It can be used along with buffersize to avoid results stripping. Check if your IMAP server supports SEARCH with list_server_capabilities.

return_imapconf

A logical. If TRUE, the function returns a list of length 2, containing the imapconf object (IMAP settings) and the search results as message ids ("MSN" or "UID"). If FALSE, returns only the message ids as a numeric vector. Default is TRUE.

retries

Number of attempts to connect and execute the command. Default is 2.

Value

Depending on the return_imapconf parameter, it can be a list of length 2 containing the imapconf object and message ids resulted from search, or a numeric vector containing only message ids.

See Also

Other Within-search operations: custom_search, search_older_than

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# }
# NOT RUN {
# configure IMAP
library(mRpostman)
imapconf <- configure_imap(url="imaps://your.imap.server.com",
                           username="your_username",
                           password=rstudioapi::askForPassword()
                          )

# search
results <- imapconf %>%
    select_mailbox(mbox = "Smiles GOL") %>%
    search_younger_than(seconds = 3600)

# }
# NOT RUN {
# }