[Python-ideas] New imaplib implementation for Python 3.2+ standard library

[Brian Curtin]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 14:38, Maxim Khitrov <max at mxcrypt.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:21 PM, Michael Foord <fuzzyman at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On 25 July 2011 02:06, Maxim Khitrov <max at mxcrypt.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hello python-ideas,
> >>
> >> My most recent project lead me down a path that eventually ended up at
> >> a new implementation of imaplib based on [RFC-3501]. Although I
> >> started the project by gradually adding functionality to the existing
> >> IMAP4 library, some of the features that I required simply could not
> >> be merged in (without breaking everything). As a result, I wrote my
> >> own version of the library, which incorporates all existing
> >> functionality of imaplib and includes many of my own improvements.
> >>
> >
> > There is an existing, well tested and widely used, replaced for imaplib
> that
> > I would suggest should be the first for consideration in replacing
> imaplib:
> >
> > http://imapclient.freshfoo.com/
> >
> > (Sorry.)
> >
> > All the best,
> >
> > Michael Foord
>
> I have it beat at the "Python 3 support is in the works" feature ;)
> Mine doesn't handle 2.x though.


That's not something you'd have to worry about anyway - new features,
modules, and packages would only be accepted in the next 3.x release (3.3).
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