How to catch new emails in gmail?

Question

Python

Good afternoon. I want to keep track of new and only new messages that come to my mail.

How can this be implemented?

How many read the documentation of different libraries - all you can only get n letters.

Answer 1

Interrogate the top 10 letters, there, among other things, there is a messageid, here it is and check it is unique

Answer 2

The imap protocol allows you to monitor messages not by periodic requests, but by direct connection and receiving the appropriate message for each
new message