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imapclient

An easy-to-use, Pythonic and complete IMAP client library
PyPI GitHub
Downloads
Day
60.8K
Week
388.5K
Month
1.8M
Stars
562
Forks
92
Issues
57
Version
3.1.0

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
55
Popularity
58
Adoption
70
Community
55
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
125 days ago
Monthly downloads
1,781,864
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
1,781,864
Stars
562
Stars per 1k downloads
0.32
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
55,494
Month daily avg
59,395
Momentum
-6.6%
((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
125 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
44
Monthly downloads
1,781,864
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
78
 
Issue Burden
101.4
per 1k stars
Discussions
42.7
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
47.8%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

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

Downloads by OS

Linux 36.0K
Windows 454
macOS 161

Python Versions

3.12
77.9% 27.2K
3.11
9.6% 3.3K
3.10
4.3% 1.5K
3.14
4.3% 1.5K
3.13
3.9% 1.4K

Top Countries

1. DE DE
20.0K
2. US US
13.7K
3. IE IE
459
4. FI FI
455
5. NL NL
386
6. AU AU
184
7. IN IN
173
8. RU RU
163
9. SG SG
150
10. FR FR
146

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
4 months ago
Last Commit
4 months ago
Latest Version
3.1.0
Total Releases
16
Contributors
44
Open PRs
8
Archived
No
Author
Menno Finlay-Smits
Python Versions
3
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
imap client email mail
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
May 17, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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