I've got a new release of Hep available at http://www.fettig.net/projects/hep/. For those unfamiliar with it, Hep is a mutliprotocol message server. It provides a proxy/translation layer between email and the web, so you can read RSS feeds and write weblog posts from the comfort of your favorite mail client (using either POP3 or IMAP). I'm also releasing a new library called Yarn (http://www.fettig.net/projects/yarn/), a seperate package containing all the messaging-system-abstraction bits that used to be in Hep. Yarn lets you work with RSS and Atom feeds, weblogs, Maildir directories, etc., using a common Folder/Message API. It supports authentication, sharing connections between users, and tracking metadata between sessions. It's fully unicode-aware. It uses plugins to make it easy to add support for new protocols and file formats. Yarn is a little short on docs at the moment, but if you're feeling curious there's some code in the examples/ directory that will get you started. I'll have some tutorials up on my website soon, though. Both Hep and Yarn make heavy use of Twisted (even mktap/twistd). Many thanks to the Twisted team, especially exarkun for his work on IMAP - I'm so glad I didn't have to write that code myself! Abe