> And receiving hotmail (or any outher webmail) using scraping > techniques is a daunting task, to say the least - you should > forget about that IMHO.
There's a perl project called "gotmail" that will do the scraping to dump in a local mailbox file (I don't remember whether it's MH or mbox format). You can snag it at http://gotmail.sf.net Thus, there's evidence that Hotmail can be scraped, but it seems they have a never-ending battle against Hotmail, trying to keep up with changes. I don't know of any Python projects doing the same sort of thing. It might not be too hard to port the Perl project over to Python, but one would be an extra level removed from scraping Hotmail, playing catchup not only with Hotmail, but then porting the latest fixes from Gotmail. There are a couple other Hotmail-to-mbox scrapers I've heard of, but haven't tried. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
