Checking mail?

[Dag Hansteen]

You can do it like this:

def checkEmail():
    email = poplib.POP3('mail.mydomain.ext')
    email.user('user')
    email.pass_('password')
    numbers = email.list()
    count = 0
    for n in numbers:
        count = count + 1
    print "You have", str(count), "new e-mails in inbox."
    email.quit()
    
    
Best regards Dag Hansteen



   
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dylan Parry" <usenet at dylanparry.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 10, 2004 1:23 PM
Subject: Checking mail?


> Hi,
> 
> I am by no means a Python programmer, but I am dabbling with it and trying
> to create a simple program that reports how many emails I have to
> download. So far, using the poplib extension, I have got:
> 
>     def checkEmail():
>         email = poplib.POP3('mail.mydomain.ext')
>         email.user('user')
>         email.pass_('password')
>         number = email.stat()
>         email.quit()
>     
>         if (number[0] == 0):
>             return "No new emails"
>         elif (number[0] == 1):
>             return "1 new email"
>         else:
>             string = str(number[0])
>             string += " new emails"
>             return string
> 
> Which is fine as long as the server doesn't timeout, or my machine isn't
> doing something else that takes up all my bandwidth! Coming from a Java
> background, I was wondering if there is anything similar in Python that
> allows me to do something like:
> 
>     try {
>         something();
>     }
>     catch (exception e) {
>         somethingelse();
>     }
> 
> Where if the "something()" fails then the "somethingelse()" will be ran
> instead? Or is there another way that I can deal with timeouts in Python?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> -- 
> Dylan Parry
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> 
>