imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-05-25, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote:

> I'm about to do stuff with emails on an IMAP server and wrote a program 
> using imaplib

My recollection of using imaplib a few years ago is that yes, it is
unweildy, oddly low-level, and rather un-Pythonic (excuse my
presumption in declaring what is and isn't "Pythonic").

I switched to using imaplib2 and found it much easier to use. It's a
higher-level wrapper for imaplib.

I think this is the currently maintained fork:

  https://github.com/jazzband/imaplib2

I haven't activly used either for several years, so things may have
changed...

--
Grant