IMAP FETCH Subject

Question

Using IMAP via telnet, I want to be able to extract the subject from the specific given email. Now I know that the fetch command is responsible for getting data from an email.

Answer 1

I discovered the answer:

BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT)]

.PEEK tells it not open it (so /seen isn't set).

Answer 2

"a1 FETCH 1:* (FLAGS BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (SUBJECT DATE FROM)])\r\n"

Answer 3

Besides BODY.PEEK, you could fetch ENVELOPE, which gives you a parsed summary of much of the message metadata.