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On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Anthony Papillion
<anthony@cajuntechie.org> wrote:
> I'm writing a program to help migrate mail from one host to another
> with a few special circumstances. I'm able to get a list off of the
> source IMAP server using the .list() command but I'm not quite sure
> how to create a folder on the target machine.
>
> Does anyone know how to create a folder using IMAPlib?

They're called "mailboxes", which I'll admit is not the most obvious
name, but imaplib is following the IMAP spec here. You can create them
with .create() and delete them with .delete().

ChrisA