Gregory Piñero wrote: > I was wondering what methods you experts would reccomend for this task? > > Here are the options I have come up with so far: > > 1. Build something with the poblib library > (http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html) > --Any pointers on doing this? How to I get poplib to save messages in > a standard format I can > later import into Thunderbird, Outlook, etc? (mbox?)
I don't do much with email, but there's an example of accessing gmail via poplib here: http://groups.google.ca/group/comp.lang.python/msg/a12263a870f5f236 And of course there's the 'email' standard library module: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.html HTH, ~Simon Out of curiosity, why do you want to _backup_ a gmail account? (I use my gmail account to backup files and documents I never want to lose.) I could think of some reasons, but I'm wondering what yours are. : ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
