Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 14:32:02 -0400, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to write a quick and not-too-dirty C program to process some e-mail. (Including dealing with mbox files.) Is there a standard library to do this? Respectfully, No, there's no library for `email processing' in

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Patrick C
Searching real quick shows the existence of both libmime and libmbox... don't know if they're maintained. Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. -Patrick On 24/03/2008, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 24 Mar

Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Robert Huff
Giorgos Keramidas writes: No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :) It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this sort of thing, if you ask me. There are excellent

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Erwan David
Le Mon 24/03/2008, Patrick C disait Searching real quick shows the existence of both libmime and libmbox... don't know if they're maintained. Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. -Patrick libPAN (or is it libEtPAN ?) is

Re: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C)

2008-03-24 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Mar 24, 2008, at 2:04 PM, Patrick C wrote: Another option would be to dig out the associated code in pine, elm, or whatnot. See how they access mail. What is used in pine (now alpine) is the c-client libraries already mentioned in another post. -j -- Jeffrey Goldberg