imaplib: is this really so unwieldy?

[hw]

On 5/25/21 3:55 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2021-05-25, hw <hw at adminart.net> wrote:
> 
>> I'm about to do stuff with emails on an IMAP server and wrote a program
>> using imaplib
> 
> My recollection of using imaplib a few years ago is that yes, it is
> unweildy, oddly low-level, and rather un-Pythonic (excuse my
> presumption in declaring what is and isn't "Pythonic").

It's good to know that it's not me and that I simply made a bad pick for 
something to learn python with :)

> I switched to using imaplib2 and found it much easier to use. It's a
> higher-level wrapper for imaplib.
> 
> I think this is the currently maintained fork:
> 
>    https://github.com/jazzband/imaplib2
> 
> I haven't activly used either for several years, so things may have
> changed...
> 
> --
> Grant
>