Email Previews

2010-09-01 Thread Paul Jefferson
Hello, I'm currently trying to write a quick script that takes email message objects and generates quick snippet previews (like the iPhone does when you are in the menu) but I'm struggling. I was just wondering before I started to put a lot of work in this if there were any existing scripts out th

Re: IMAP Problems

2010-07-04 Thread Paul Jefferson
Brilliant! Thanks guys I will have to have a play around later On 4 July 2010 04:12, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > I'm trying to write a simple script which displays the basic details > > of a person's mailbox. My problem is that it causes all the messages > > to be marked as read on the server, >

IMAP Problems

2010-07-03 Thread Paul Jefferson
Hi, I'm trying to write a simple script which displays the basic details of a person's mailbox. My problem is that it causes all the messages to be marked as read on the server, which is not what I'm after, and I also can't get the imap.sort command to work properly (currently commented out as I re

Encoding Text

2008-05-03 Thread Paul Jefferson
Hi, I'm learning this and I'm making a program which takes RSS feeds and processes them and then outputs them to a HTML file. The problem I have is that some of the RSS feeds contain chachters which I think are outside of the ascii range as when I attempt to write the file containing themI get the

Newbie Help - Alarms

2008-04-28 Thread Paul Jefferson
Hi, I'm new to this having previously done some programming in Game Maker. In Game Maker there was a function (Alarm) that lets you run a block of code run every x seconds without freezing up the whole program waiting for it. Is there an equavalant for this built in Python beacuse I can't find it?