"John Savage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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)
Instead of mimicking a browser to access this e-mail account through the web interface, see if there is a POP3 access to your free e-mail (I'd be surprised if there isn't). POP3 programming (using the supplied poplib module) is *very* simple in Python, handles login name and pwd, no cookie-ing required. The Python docs include this example: http://docs.python.org/lib/pop3-example.html -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
