imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?

[boB Stepp]

On Sun, May 30, 2021 at 1:04 AM hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote:
>
> On 5/28/21 2:36 AM, boB Stepp wrote:

> > <quote>
> > Just as SMTP is the protocol for sending email, the Internet Message
> > Access Protocol (IMAP) specifies how to communicate with an email
> > provider’s server to retrieve emails sent to your email address.
> > Python comes with an imaplib module, but in fact the third-party
> > imapclient module is easier to use. This chapter provides an
> > introduction to using IMAPClient; the full documentation is at
> > http://imapclient.readthedocs.org/.
> >
> > The imapclient module downloads emails from an IMAP server in a rather
> > complicated format. Most likely, you’ll want to convert them from this
> > format into simple string values. The pyzmail module does the hard job
> > of parsing these email messages for you. You can find the complete
> > documentation for PyzMail at http://www.magiksys.net/pyzmail/.
> >
> > Install imapclient and pyzmail from a Terminal window. Appendix A has
> > steps on how to install third-party modules.
> > </quote>

> I don't know which imaplib the author uses; the imaplib I found
> definitely doesn't give uids of the messages, contrary to the example
> he's giving.

Look at the above three paragraphs quoted from my original response.
The author is using *imapclient* and *pyzmail* as the author
indicates.

boB Stepp