<br>ok i dont want to write an mta<br>i want to use another mta<br>to recieve emails on say - <br><br><a href="mailto:python@mygrouplist.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">python@mygrouplist.com
</a><br><br>so can i start reading the emails to python from that mta
<br><br>How to set this up to read messages from the mta<br><br>sending out email<br>we are using sendmail so we ll continue using that for now<br>thanks<br>It depends.<br><br>If you're trying to write a MTA, think about looking at and stealing
<br>parts of mailmain and smtpd.py<br><br>Mailman: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
</a><br>Smtpd:<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://barry.warsaw.us/software/Code/smtpd.py" target="_blank">http://barry.warsaw.us/software/Code/smtpd.py</a><br><br>If you're going to use someone else as a MTA then just use IMAP or POP
<br>to get the mail out, there are IMAP and POP libraries<br><br>imap: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-imaplib.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/lib/module-imaplib.html
</a><br>pop: <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html</a><br><br>Else, if you're writing this all from scratch, whip out the RFC and
<br>start hacking:<br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc821.txt" target="_blank">http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc821.txt</a>
<br><br> --Michael<br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/13/08, <b class="gmail_sendername"><a href="mailto:mobiledreamers@gmail.com">mobiledreamers@gmail.com</a></b> <<a href="mailto:mobiledreamers@gmail.com">
mobiledreamers@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I m trying to create something simple a mailing list similar to yahoo groups
<br>I m stumbling at the part where the python recieves messages via say <a href="mailto:python@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">python@yahoogroups.com</a><br><br>
how to make python recieve emails and process it<br>after that it is straight forward processing in python inserting in db etc<br>
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