Hello monks,

I come before you today seeking your wisdom and advice on using the Mail::IMAPClient module.

I have an email with the following subject:

test email "abc123" approved

When I search for this email as follows, I find the email:

my @uids = $imap->search("SUBJECT \"test email \"abc123\"\"")

However, if I try to search for the full subject name, I cannot find the email:

my @uids = $imap->search("SUBJECT \"test email \"abc123\" approved\"")

I've tried various other ways to search but to no avail. I only have this issue when double quotes are in the subject.

Has anyone experienced this before? Any help/advice would be great.

Thanks!

Update:

Here is the code I am using to search for a new email on my work's exchange server based on subject, to and from email addresses:

my $searchSubject = 'test email "abc123" approved';
sub search {
        my ($mailbox, $folder, $searchSubject, $searchFromAddress, $se
+archToAddress) = @_;

        #Connecting to mailbox
        ...
        $imap->examine($folder);
        $imap->Uid(1);

        my @uids = $imap->search('UNSEEN', 'SUBJECT', $searchSubject, 
+'HEADER', 'FROM', $searchFromAddress, 'HEADER', 'TO', $searchToAddres
+s);

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If $searchSubject has double quotes in it, my code hangs at the $imap->search command.

In reply to Mail::IMAPClient and searching email subjects with double quotes by treize

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