are there any lib for receive hotmail ?

Tim Chase python.list at tim.thechases.com
Tue Sep 5 12:05:09 EDT 2006


> And receiving hotmail (or any outher webmail) using scraping
> techniques is a daunting task, to say the least - you should
> forget about that IMHO.

There's a perl project called "gotmail" that will do the scraping 
to dump in a local mailbox file (I don't remember whether it's MH 
or mbox format).  You can snag it at

http://gotmail.sf.net

Thus, there's evidence that Hotmail can be scraped, but it seems 
they have a never-ending battle against Hotmail, trying to keep 
up with changes.

I don't know of any Python projects doing the same sort of thing. 
  It might not be too hard to port the Perl project over to 
Python, but one would be an extra level removed from scraping 
Hotmail, playing catchup not only with Hotmail, but then porting 
the latest fixes from Gotmail.

There are a couple other Hotmail-to-mbox scrapers I've heard of, 
but haven't tried.

-tkc







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