On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: > On 10/27/2010 01:22 PM, Donn Cave wrote: >> >> Don't know, but probably challenging enough to make it worth challenging >> the assumption that Python now has a good email library. >> >>> From a cursory look at the 3.0 library documentation, it looks to >> >> me like IMAP support still means the old imaplib module. That's >> pretty rudimentary, compared to the HaskellNet IMAP support. > > Not just rudimentary, but hideously buggy and with a terrible API. imaplib2 > improves the API a bit but makes the bugginess worse. > > I wrote and maintained OfflineIMAP from 2001 (I think) to 2010 so have just > a wee bit of experience with that issue.
This is off-subject, but I too wrote a mail program in python around 1999 or so. I eventually gave up on imaplib and wrote my own which was (if I may say so myself) simpler, easier to use, and less buggy. If no one has replaced it >10 years later, I'm guessing not too many people care about it. I was pretty tired of email by that point and tossed the whole project into some dark corner and forgot about it. Nowadays if I want to send email, it's cmdline sendmail all the way. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe