email modul with writing to mboxes (and locking) for python 2.4.*?

John J. Lee jjl at pobox.com
Fri May 25 14:28:51 EDT 2007


Matej Cepl <mcepl at redhat.com> writes:

> Is there somewhere support for the extension of email module, 
> which would support writing to (and creating new) mbox folders 
> (with all bells and whistles, like locking)? It seems to me that 
> current (Python 2.4.*, I even tried email package 
> 4.0.2 from python.org email SIG) implementation is read-only, am
> I right?
> 
> Thanks for any reply,
> 
> Matej Cepl

Not sure whether you know this already, but module mailbox in Python
2.5 supports writing mbox folders.  If it's not 2.4 compatible, it's
fairly likely to be an easy backport.


John



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