On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 3:05 PM, John Goerzen
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.