[Python-Dev] imaplib module with IDLE implememted via threads

[Guido van Rossum]

I hope you'll check this into SVN too?

--Guido

On 12/8/05, Piers Lauder <piers at cs.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> If anyone needs the IMAP4 extension "IDLE", there is a copy of an enhanced
> imaplib module available for download here:
>
>   http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~piers/python/imaplib.html
>
> This is an IMAP4rev1 mail protocol client class using threads for parallel
> operation. It is modified from the non-threaded version included in the
> standard Python distributions, but presents (a superset of) the same API.
>
> I have named this version "imaplib2" as it uses threads to implememt
> the necessary callbacks, and it doesn't seem necessary to burden the
> orginal module with requiring threading.
>
> The module has been in production use for several months, and seems stable.
>
> Piers Lauder
>
> <P><A HREF="http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~piers/python/imaplib.html">imaplib2</A>
> IMAP4rev1 mail protocol client class using threads to implement the IDLE extension.
> (09-Dec-2005)
>
>
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