error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED

[zhao-ji]

error Traceback (most recent call last)
in ()
----> 1 mails.next()

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imbox/init.pyc in fetch_list(self, **kwargs)
32
33 def fetch_list(self, **kwargs):
---> 34 uid_list = self.query_uids(**kwargs)
35
36 for uid in uid_list:

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/imbox/init.pyc in query_uids(self, **kwargs)
20 query = build_search_query(**kwargs)
21
---> 22 message, data = self.connection.uid('search', None, query)
23 return data[0].split()
24

/usr/lib/python2.7/imaplib.pyc in uid(self, command, *args)
756 "only allowed in states %s" %
757 (command, self.state,
--> 758 ', '.join(Commands[command])))
759 name = 'UID'
760 typ, dat = self._simple_command(name, command, *args)

error: command SEARCH illegal in state AUTH, only allowed in states SELECTED

[liuyu121]

The same problem

[d1ffuz0r]

select folder first,
then query

self.conn.connection.select(TRASH)
messages = self.conn.messages(TRASH)

[doismellburning]

I hit the same problem, and it appears to only occur when I've used an incorrect folder name.

I suspect it'd be worth checking if a supplied folder name appears in imbox.folders() and raising a helpful exception or similar

(http://stackoverflow.com/q/5161053/928098 and http://stackoverflow.com/a/5161338/928098 were insightful!)