Re: Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-08 Thread Chris Lambacher
fetchmail worked for me. You have to be patient though because it takes a while for all of your mail to become available for pop download. -Chris On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:43:32PM -0400, Gregory Pi?ero wrote: > On 8/5/06, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While you can write a scri

Re: Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-05 Thread Gregory Piñero
On 8/5/06, Neil Hodgson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While you can write a script, its quite easy to turn on POP and run > a client side mail client like Thunderbird. Good point, Neil. This is a very tempting option, I just wanted to include it in a backup script rather than having to open up

Re: Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-05 Thread Neil Hodgson
Gregory Piñero: > I was wondering what methods you experts > would reccomend for this task? While you can write a script, its quite easy to turn on POP and run a client side mail client like Thunderbird. Neil -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-05 Thread Gregory Piñero
On 5 Aug 2006 15:27:03 -0700, Simon Forman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. : ) Here are a f

Re: Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-05 Thread Simon Forman
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

Backup GMAIL Messages with Python

2006-08-05 Thread Gregory Piñero
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 for