IMAP content sensor - dealing with emails arriving at the same time

Configuration
1

So like many others, I’m using the IMAP content sensor to populate some sensors. My issue is that with reasonable frequency I get multiple emails at the same moment (because batching but not combining I guess -_-).

Is it possible to poll for the last ~5 emails or something similar? I’ve seen discussions about how the IMAP sensor USED to work that seem to search the entire inbox.

Cheers in advance!

2

Are you using just one IMAP sensor or do you have explicit searches for your different sensor needs?

3

Unfortunately in this case just the one - the incoming emails only differ in what I actually want to pull in =/

I’ve been testing with the generic imap content sensor from the documentation that updates on each new email coming in (for now).

4

Then, the first thing I would try would be setting up a sensor whose search finds all your sensor-related emails but ignores the other incoming messages. Then copy/paste the search criteria into the trigger of the content sensor.

- platform: event
  event_type: "imap_content"
  event_data:
    search: UnDeleted X-GM-RAW "example only"
5

Ah, I explained badly. I’ve essentially done that (for now) by restricting the actual emails being forwarded to the IMAP sensor monitored inbox, though I’ll do what you suggest.

I haven’t actually seen the ‘X-GM-RAW’ flag, is it just to allow for gmail specific search terms?

6

X-GM-RAW is in the IMAP documentation, nevermind.