According to Google, the question has come up before, but there doesn't seem to be much of an answer.
The imaplib module return values are mostly useless as-is: they're just whatever string the server sent (or in some cases a list of strings). You've got to parse them using the IMAP syntax before you can do much with them. Is there a library somewhere that impliments the IMAP protocol syntax? -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Now I understand the at meaning of "THE MOD SQUAD"! visi.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list