On Sat, May 14, 2022, 7:12 AM Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many <[1]gmkarl@gmail.com> wrote: class yamf: def __init__(self, host, port, user, pw, imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL): self.imap = imap(host, port) self.imap.login(user, pw) print(self.imap.welcome.decode()) # this is how far I am (Pdb) p imap.list(directory='""',pattern='Sent') ('OK', [b'(\\HasNoChildren) "/" "Sent"']) commands are returned as a tuple of status and data, which here is an array list responses are bytes values containing a quoted, space-separated 3-tuple. References 1. mailto:gmkarl@gmail.com