How do I download only unread attachments from a specific gmail label?

Question

I have a Python script adapted from Downloading MMS emails sent to Gmail using Python

import email, getpass, imaplib, os

detach_dir = \'.\' # directory where to         


        

Answer 1

Try modifying this line:

resp, items = m.search(None, 'FROM', '"Impact Stats Script"')

to:

resp, items = m.search(None, 'UNSEEN', 'FROM', '"Impact Stats Script"')

The Python imaplib documentation shows just adding more search criteria, and the IMAP specification defines the UNSEEN search criteria:

  UNSEEN
     Messages that do not have the \Seen flag set.