diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 724510c..6f171cb 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -29,8 +29,5 @@ nosetests.xml
 # Translations
 *.mo
 
-# Mr Developer
-.mr.developer.cfg
-.project
-.pydevproject
+example.*
 example.py
diff --git a/example.py b/example.py
deleted file mode 100644
index f5ce304..0000000
--- a/example.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-import sys
-sys.path.insert(0, '/home/martin/mailbox')
-
-from mailbox import MailBox
-
-mailbox = MailBox('imap.gmail.com',
-				  username='username',
-				  password='password')
-
-unread = mailbox.get_unread()
-
-for message in unread:
-	print message.json()
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mailbox/__init__.py b/mailbox/__init__.py
index 7c9d82d..7b9cde3 100644
--- a/mailbox/__init__.py
+++ b/mailbox/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import email
 from mailbox.imap import ImapTransport
 
 class MailBox(object):
@@ -8,5 +9,39 @@ class MailBox(object):
 		self.connection = server.connect(username, password)
 
 
+
+	def parse_email(self, raw_email):
+
+		email_message = email.message_from_string(raw_email)
+		headers = dict(email_message.items())
+
+		maintype = email_message.get_content_maintype()
+
+		message = []
+		
+		if maintype == 'multipart':
+			for part in email_message.get_payload():
+				if part.get_content_maintype() == 'text':
+					message.append(part.get_payload(decode=True))
+		elif maintype == 'text':
+			message.append(email_message.get_payload(decode=True))
+
+		return {
+			'message': message,
+			'headers': headers,
+			'maintype': maintype
+		}
+
+
 	def get_unread(self):
+
+		result, data = self.connection.uid('search', None, "ALL") # search and return uids instead
+		latest_email_uid = data[0].split()[-1]
+		result, data = self.connection.uid('fetch', latest_email_uid, '(RFC822)')
+
+		raw_email = data[0][1]
+
+		print self.parse_email(raw_email)
+
+	
 		return {}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/mailbox/imap.py b/mailbox/imap.py
index 05c4a4f..cc46fff 100644
--- a/mailbox/imap.py
+++ b/mailbox/imap.py
@@ -17,8 +17,16 @@ class ImapTransport(object):
 			if not self.port:
 				self.port = 143
 
+
+	def list_folders(self):
+		return self.server.list()
+
 	def connect(self, username, password):
 		self.server = self.transport(self.hostname, self.port)
 		typ, msg = self.server.login(username, password)
+
 		self.server.select()
 
+		return self.server
+	
+