funkymonky has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (mail and news)

the following method selects a folder $imap->select($folder) When I trace the response from the server, it looks like this:
000E SELECT "INBOX"
* FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen)
* OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)]  
* 3 EXISTS
* 0 RECENT
* OK [UIDVALIDITY 1030359672]  
* OK [UIDNEXT 191]  
000E OK [READ-WRITE] Completed

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Now I want to use this in my program. The function returns a hash reference so I do the following:
%map_status=%{$imap->select("INBOX")};

This command works perfectly, but the PROBLEM is it does not contain the server response.
QUESTION: How do I extract the server response?

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Re: select function from Mail::IMAPClient⭐
by jlongino (Parson) on Oct 19, 2002 at 17:11 UTC
    You probably want to use the Results method (without argument) to obtain the server response from the last IMAP client command issued: 
    use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::IMAPClient;
use Data::Dumper;

my $host = 'some.server.net';
my $id = 'login';
my $pw = 'password';
my $folder = "/somepath/tomail/folder";

my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new( Server   => $host,
                                  User     => $id,
                                  Password => $pw,
                                  Debug    => 1,
) or die "Cannot connect to $host as $id: $@";

$imap->select($folder);

my @results1 = $imap->Results;
my @status = $imap->status($folder);
my @results2 = $imap->Results;
my $uidnext = $imap->uidnext($folder);
my @results3 = $imap->Results;

print Dumper(\@results1, \@status, \@results2, $uidnext, \@results3);

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    --Jim

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