How to install imapclient

Question

I’m trying to use the IMAP client library:

https://imapclient.readthedocs.org/en/stable/

I download the zip:

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/IMAPClient/0.13

Answer 1

You'll need to make sure your PYTHONPATH is set properly: https://docs.python.org/2/using/windows.html#configuring-python

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem and below are the steps is used to install imapclient. Step1: Clone IMAPClient repository to install it from source.

git clone https://github.com/mjs/imapclient.git

Step2: Navigate to imapclient folder on your computer. Mine was installed on my home directory on linux so the command i used was:

 $ cd imapclient/

Step3: Time to install imap using pip while inside the imapclient folder.

pip install -e .

PS:NOTE THE dot(.) ARGUMENT PASSED ON THE COMMAND.

Above installation steps in screenshot

Using your system change directory command, navigate to the cloned imap client folder

pip install and verify on the python interpreter.