From mobiledreamers at gmail.com  Mon Jan 14 09:38:53 2008
From: mobiledreamers at gmail.com (Mark)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:38:53 -0800
Subject: [Email-SIG] simple email list in python
Message-ID: <478B1F9D.6050801@gmail.com>

hi guys

I m trying to create something simple a mailing list similar to yahoo groups
 I m stumbling at the part where the python recieves messages via say
 python at yahoogroups.com

  how to make python recieve emails and process it
 after that it is straight forward processing in python inserting in db/file etc


 i dont want to write an mta
 i want to use another mta
 to recieve emails on say -

 python at mygrouplist.com

 so can i start reading the emails to python from that mta

 How to set this up to read messages from the mta

 sending out email
we are using sendmail so we ll continue using that for now
thanks




From phd at phd.pp.ru  Mon Jan 14 10:02:53 2008
From: phd at phd.pp.ru (Oleg Broytmann)
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:02:53 +0300
Subject: [Email-SIG] simple email list in python
In-Reply-To: <478B1F9D.6050801@gmail.com>
References: <478B1F9D.6050801@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20080114090253.GE8235@phd.pp.ru>

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:38:53AM -0800, Mark wrote:
>   how to make python recieve emails and process it
>  after that it is straight forward processing in python inserting in db/file etc
> 
>  i dont want to write an mta
>  i want to use another mta

   The question has nothing with python or email package - it only depends
on the MTA you are going to use. Usually every MTA can pipe a message to
stdin of a program and that's enough.

Oleg.
-- 
     Oleg Broytmann            http://phd.pp.ru/            phd at phd.pp.ru
           Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.