email automation

[Brian Oney]

Dear List,

I would like to send out custom automated replies to email. In the future, I
would like to be able to integrate nltk and fuzzy matching if necessary.

After some basic research I have a few options:

     1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, still alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case);
     2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff';
     3. forget about it.
     
Please tell me about any possible alternatives I missed.

Kind regards,
Brian