Hi,

I have a few imap-accounts that I would like to process with a script.

Currently I am using Net::IMAP::Client and I can connect and login without problem.

However I seem to have a problem with the gmail-account.

If I do e.g. 

my $msg_ids = $imap->search("ALL", "DATE");

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I get an array-ref containing message-ids sorted by date on a "normal" imap-account.

But if I try this on a gmail-account I get an undef. However $imap->search("ALL") works everwhere, even with gmail.

So it seems that gmail does not like to sort.

So my question is: How can I hack around this?

Is there a way to treat gmail just like any other imap-account or will it always be a special case?

Would another library do the trick?

Many thanks!

In reply to imap problem with gmail by morgon

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