On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 12:15:26 -0400, Kent Johnson wrote: > James Cunningham wrote: > >> I'd like to write a daemon that logs into the text-based web client >> every so often, scrapes for new email, and uses smtplib to send that >> email to another email address. But I really don't know how I'd go >> about logging in and staying logged in without a browser. >> >> Hints are appreciated. Am I wrong-headed about this? Any other options >> available to me? > > This might be a starting point: > http://pywebmail.sourceforge.net/ > > Otherwise mechanize and Beautiful Soup will give you some high-level > tools to get started with: > http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/ > http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/ > > Kent
pywebmail sounds great, and mechanize is actually just what I was looking for. Thanks a lot, especially for the quick response! Best, James _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor