For Claire. Marks all emails as read.

mail.py

#!/usr/bin/env python3
from imapclient import IMAPClient, SEEN

auth = {
    # Enter your user name and password between the quotes below.
    'username': 'USERNAME',
    'password': 'PASSWORD',

    'host': 'imap.gmail.com',
}

mail = IMAPClient(auth['host'], ssl=True)
mail.login(auth['username'], auth['password'])

mail.select_folder('INBOX')
msgs = mail.search(['UNSEEN'])
mail.add_flags(msgs, [SEEN])

mail.logout()

run.sh

#!/bin/bash

curl https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py -o get-pip.py
python get-pip.py
python -m pip install --user imapclient
python mail.py

1. Download both files to the same folder
2. Run bash run.sh from the command line