Receiving emails with attachments

[Gerard Flanagan]

tomer.ha at gmail.com wrote:

> Gerard,
>
> I tried to run your code but my interpreter couldn't locate the
> maildocument module. Is it included in Python standart library or
> should I install it from other place?
>
> Thanks,
> Tomer

Sorry Tomer,

I was just suggesting you read it through as an example, didn't think
you'd be interested in the whole shebang! PopClient was part of a
half-baked project whose intent was to keep an eye on my technology-shy
parents' emails and - wait for it - *post* them any attachments that
were important!! Emails they can do, attachments not. But it was a good
learning exercise.

All the necessary files are here:

    http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/

Coming from C# I was used to 'one class - one file', but this will be
updated one of these days.

This is the particular file you want:

    http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/MailDocument.html

which requires:

    http://gflanagan.net/site/python/pagliacci/ElementWrapper.html

and both these require the elementtree package which will soon be part
of the standard library, but now you can get it here:

    http://effbot.org

( I also have a simple viewer based on XSLT, CherryPy and a CherryPy
filter called Picket but it's not very sophisticated.)

Hope that's enough to get you started.

Gerard