[Tutor] recommended mail modules?

[Lance E Sloan]

--On Wednesday, June 11, 2003 19:01 +0200 Magnus Lyck=E5=20
<magnus@thinkware.se> wrote:
> At 10:58 2003-06-11 -0400, Lance E Sloan wrote:
>> This Perl program is designed to go through the messages in a mail
>> folder (UNIX mbox-style), examine headers, and do various things.  It
>> uses Mail::Folder, Mail::Internet, and some MIME modules.  I'm trying to
>> figure out which Python modules I should use for this.
>
> I don't know what these Perl modules do, but the fairly recent
> module 'email' in the standard library pretty much replaces
> most other libraries. Since it's so recent (2.1 or 2.1, don't

Thanks for the tip, Magnus (and Lloyd Kvam, too).  Python's "email" module=20
looks to be roughly equivalent to Perl's Mail::Internet.  Upon looking at=20
the "email" documentation, it looks like I want to use the "mailbox"=20
module, too, which is equivalent to Perl's Mail::Folder.

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