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imapclient

An easy-to-use, Pythonic and complete IMAP client library
PyPI GitHub
No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

imapclient has 2.1M monthly downloads and 561 GitHub stars. Version 3.1.0 supports Python 3.8.0+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jan 2026.

It is used by 59 tracked packages, including mailsuite, email-to-calendar and lingtai.

GitHub topics include imap and imap-client.

Downloads
Day
87.5K
Week
523.6K
Month
2.1M
Stars
561
Forks
93
Issues
57
Version
3.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
80
Popularity
58
Adoption
80
Community
55
Provenance
0
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
8 days ago
Monthly downloads
2,087,329
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
2,087,329
Stars
561
Stars per 1k downloads
0.27
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
• Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
74,801
Month daily avg
69,578
Momentum
+7.5%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.8.0
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
• Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
3-Clause BSD License
• Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
170 days ago
Total releases
16
Releases/year
1.2
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
45
Monthly downloads
2,087,329
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
77
 
Issue Burden
101.6
per 1k stars
Discussions
42.8
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
48.4%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
161d
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 68.4K
Windows 878
macOS 548

Python Versions

3.12
80.3% 55.1K
3.10
8.6% 5.9K
3.11
6.2% 4.3K
3.13
3.0% 2.1K
3.14
1.9% 1.3K

Top Countries

1. DE DE
49.1K
2. US US
14.4K
3. FR FR
2.4K
4. CZ CZ
600
5. IE IE
580
6. IN IN
436
7. NL NL
436
8. FI FI
389
9. AU AU
274
10. GB GB
153
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
3-Clause BSD License
First Release
July 10, 2013
Last Release
5 months ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
3.1.0
Total Releases
16
Contributors
45
Open PRs
7
Archived
No
Author
Menno Finlay-Smits
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
imap client email mail
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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