On 2/5/2011 5:34 PM, iaoua iaoua wrote:
What I really need is a ready made fully functional Python client that
already has it that offers me a simple interface to extract text from
received messages along with a message id that I can use to associate
the response to a question with and allows me to send out new
questions or answers along with a message id I can use to track future
responses with. I need something that already has the whole shebang.
Can support POP3, IMAP, SSL authentication, message threading etc.
It sounds like you need an SMTP receiving server and an SMTP sender,
not a user-type client. See
http://docs.python.org/library/smtpd.html
for a simple server that will handle incoming messages, and
http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html
for an SMTP sender that can reply to them. Those are standard
Python functions.
You can run this on most server-type machines. It's best
if you have an upstream server configured to do spam filtering
and forwarding to your server, or you'll get vast amounts of
junk coming into your system.
Have the upstream machine forward to a nonstandard mail
port (like "example.com:2525") if the server machine already
has a mail server. This will allow the existing mail server to
run.
John Nagle
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