On 22/10/2018 18:35, Brian Oney via Python-list wrote: > Dear List, > > I would like to send out custom automated replies to email. In the future, I > would like to be able to integrate nltk and fuzzy matching if necessary. > > After some basic research I have a few options: > > 1. Grapple with OpenEMM (interesting software, has python library, still > alive and kicking, a bit overkill for my use-case); > 2. build on the examples in 'Automate the boring stuff';
>From briefly skimming the relevant section, it looks like this gives some examples with smtplib and imaplib. That sounds like a good place to start! If you happen to have a server (VPS, Raspberry Pi, PC, whatever) running a full MTA that you can forward your emails to, you could feed the relevant messages to your script directly with the help of procmail, rather than polling an IMAP server. > 3. forget about it. > > Please tell me about any possible alternatives I missed. > > Kind regards, > Brian > -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
