simple example of mimelib? and embedding (not attaching) images in email sent with python.

[Markus Schaber]

Hi,

phil hunt <philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk> schrub:

> parses text. Note also that this is documentted under the heading
> "Parsing MIME documents" which wants to be changed to something like
> "Parsing Mail Documents".

That is definitely not true, because there are other uses for mime 
encapsulation, not only mail. The nearest example is Usenet News.

>>One question though: while I original wrote mimelib to handle the
>>MIME-specific tasks, it really is shaping up to be a general mail
>>handling library.  "mimelib" might be the wrong name for it.
>>"maillib" and "emaillib" seem inelegant, and "messagelib" too
>>generic.
> 
> Mail messages and usenet messages are rather similar. Similar enough
> that they ought to be represented by the same class (or perhaps,
> different subclasses of the same superclass). 

The same class, please. You can send the same message per mail and nntp 
at the same time (known as post&Mail).

> If one library covers both, then messagelib seems an approprate name.

Agree.


markus
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