[Pythonmac-SIG] Controlling Mail.app from Python

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 29-mei-2006, at 2:23, Daniel Lord wrote:

>
> On May 28, 2006, at 10:58, David Warde-Farley wrote:
>
>> Maybe for such complicated interactions a plugin would do the
>> trick? (I'm not totally sure, I haven't explored their full
>> capability).
>>
>> If you're interested see the tutorial at
>>
>> http://www.bazza.com/~eaganj/weblog/2006/03/29/demystifying-mail-
>> app-plugins
>>
>> Coincidentally, the author uses Python.
>
> Thanks David. Just read through it. Its a cool hack, but
> unfortunately the author claims to uses a private API so it remains
> just a hack which may break suddenly with no deprecation warnings. I
> need to look at the GPG plugin since its open source to if its author
> used the private API as well.

I haven't look at the source of the GPG plugin, but yes they use a  
private API as well. Mail.app doesn't have a public extension API.

Ronald