Actually no, but thanks for the suggestion.

Net::IMAP::Simple::Gmail is just 20 (or so) lines of code that does not do very much.

As far as I can see all it does is using "X-GM-RAW" for searches - something that also could just as easily achieved with Net::IMAP::Simple.

As for the sorting it is no help at all. It's just that Gmail' paradigm is searching and not sorting....

Oh well.. it's simply a special case, regardless of the library you use.