Python-list Digest, Vol 31, Issue 119

[Jay Parlar]

On Apr 8, 2006, at 1:40 PM, tomer.ha at gmail.com wrote:

>
> Hi there,
>
> I'm new to Python, but know other scripting and programming languages.
> I
> want to develop a script which will receive emails with attachments
> from my POP3 account, perform certain actions on it and email it back
> to someone else.
>
> However, I'm not familiar with any Python library which does it. Could
> you a guide me to a relevant library which can handle emails?
>
> I haven't decided yet what scripting language I will use, so a nice
> module for Python will probably make me choose it over Perl. :)
>
> Thanks in advance. :)


Well, there's always the 'email' module, part of the standard library:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html

Jay P.