I have a free web mail address and would like to use python to retrieve files that have been emailed to me. The basic code would accommodate cookies, a login name and password, then download using the full URL I can provide. From postings here I thought mechanize held promise, but I've found it to contain filenames that are invalid for MSDOS (too many characters, and/or too many dots in the name, etc.) so I have little hope that the mechanize module can be used.
I'm running python2.4.2 on plain MSDOS (not windows), so would appreciate a pointer to sample code that can do the job. I know that curl has this capability, but I'll learn something by tinkering with python code. Thanks. -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
