It depends. If you're trying to write a MTA, think about looking at and stealing parts of mailmain and smtpd.py
Mailman: http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html Smtpd:http://barry.warsaw.us/software/Code/smtpd.py If you're going to use someone else as a MTA then just use IMAP or POP to get the mail out, there are IMAP and POP libraries imap: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-imaplib.html pop: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-poplib.html Else, if you're writing this all from scratch, whip out the RFC and start hacking: http://info.internet.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc/files/rfc821.txt --Michael PS: What's the tutor policy on cross posting? On 1/14/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I m trying to create something simple a mailing list similar to yahoo groups > I m stumbling at the part where the python recieves messages via say > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > how to make python recieve emails and process it > after that it is straight forward processing in python inserting in db etc > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > -- Michael Langford Phone: 404-386-0495 Consulting: http://www.RowdyLabs.com _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
