Eureka moments in Python

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Sion Arrowsmith  <siona at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>This is more a "batteries included" eureka moment than a Python one,
>but writing a fetchmail substitute in 6 lines was an eye-opener.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:23:14PM -0500, someone emailed:
[This is a newsgroup/mailing list -- potentially useful information
like this should be shared, not taken to private email.]
> Would you mind sharing your fetchmail substitute code with me?  I'm
> curious to know what that looks like.

Unfortunately, I threw it away, as it was so trivial and I only needed
a one-shot solution. I kept meaning to come back to it and add some
configurability and error checking and such (and most importantly
providing an envelope From), but never did. The general idea is to
take the POP3 example from the library reference
(http://docs.python.org/lib/pop3-example.html) and replace the inner
for loop with "smtplib.SMTP('localhost').sendmail('', 'user',
'\n'.join(M.retr(i+1)[1]))"

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