Is there anything "better" than impalib/poplib?

Thomas Guettler niemand.leermann at thomas-guettler.de
Wed Sep 7 10:29:29 EDT 2005


Am Wed, 07 Sep 2005 10:14:45 +0000 schrieb Alessandro Bottoni:

> Is there any module or interface that allow the programmer to access a
> imap4/pop3 server in a more pythonic (or Object Oriented) way than the
> usual imaplib and popolib? 
> 
> I mean: is there any module that would allow me to query the server for
> specific messages (and fetch them) in a way similar to a OODB?

AFAIK there is not a "better" module. There is "getmail" a 
python script (and module) which can download messages from a pop3
server. I use it instead of fetchmail. Maybe you like this 
more than poplib.

 HTH,
   Thomas


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