ImapFlow is a modern and easy-to-use IMAP client library for Node.js.
Note
Managing an IMAP connection is cool, but if you are only looking for an easy way to integrate email accounts, then ImapFlow was built for EmailEngine Email API. It's a self-hosted software that converts all IMAP accounts to easy-to-use REST interfaces.
The focus for ImapFlow is to provide easy to use API over IMAP. Using ImapFlow does not expect knowledge about specific IMAP details. A general understanding is good enough.
IMAP extensions are handled in the background, so, for example, you can always request labels value from a {@link FetchQueryObject|fetch()} call, but if the IMAP server does not support X-GM-EXT-1 extension, then labels value is not included in the response.
Source code is available from Github.
First install the module from npm:
npm install imapflow
next import the ImapFlow class into your script:
const { ImapFlow } = require('imapflow');All ImapFlow methods use Promises, so you need to wait using await or wait for the then() method to fire until you get the response.
const { ImapFlow } = require('imapflow');
const client = new ImapFlow({
host: 'ethereal.email',
port: 993,
secure: true,
auth: {
user: '[email protected]',
pass: 'mW6e4wWWnEd3H4hT5B'
}
});
const main = async () => {
// Wait until client connects and authorizes
await client.connect();
// Select and lock a mailbox. Throws if mailbox does not exist
let lock = await client.getMailboxLock('INBOX');
try {
// fetch latest message source
// client.mailbox includes information about currently selected mailbox
// "exists" value is also the largest sequence number available in the mailbox
let message = await client.fetchOne(client.mailbox.exists, { source: true });
console.log(message.source.toString());
// list subjects for all messages
// uid value is always included in FETCH response, envelope strings are in unicode.
for await (let message of client.fetch('1:*', { envelope: true })) {
console.log(`${message.uid}: ${message.envelope.subject}`);
}
} finally {
// Make sure lock is released, otherwise next `getMailboxLock()` never returns
lock.release();
}
// log out and close connection
await client.logout();
};
main().catch(err => console.error(err));© 2020-2023 Postal Systems OÜ
Licensed under MIT-license