Overview

Added comprehensive documentation for the ImapRetriever integration, enabling users to search and retrieve emails from IMAP servers as LangChain Document objects.

Type of change

Type: New documentation page

Related issues/PRs

• GitHub issue:
• Feature PR:

Checklist

• I have read the contributing guidelines
• I have tested my changes locally using docs dev
• All code examples have been tested and work correctly
• I have used root relative paths for internal links
• I have updated navigation in src/docs.json if needed
• I have gotten approval from the relevant reviewers
• (Internal team members only / optional) I have created a preview deployment using the Create Preview Branch workflow

Additional notes

This documentation was created based on:

• The langchain-imap package README
• The retrievers notebook example from the package repository

The documentation includes:

• Installation instructions (including optional docling extra for full document processing)
• Configuration examples for both production IMAP servers (Gmail) and test environments (GreenMail)
• Basic usage examples with various IMAP search query patterns
• Attachment handling modes explanation
• Complete chain integration example showing how to use the retriever with an LLM for question answering over emails
• Links to the GitHub repository and additional resources

The code examples are directly adapted from the package documentation notebook.