[arie_8011]

any body know how to conect to mail server using pop3 in python??
like a mail client app...

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Running from PC it is common to use poplib module. However, this module is not available for S60. I took a look at this module and I saw few dependencies:

re, socket, hashlib, sys

I suggest that you copy it from a standard Python distro (2.5.x) and test it with Python 1.9.2. Avoid SSL for a while and report results here ! (I can not make this test right now for you, unfortunately).

[arie_8011]

Originally Posted by marcelobarrosalmeida

Running from PC it is common to use poplib module. However, this module is not available for S60. I took a look at this module and I saw few dependencies:

re, socket, hashlib, sys

I suggest that you copy it from a standard Python distro (2.5.x) and test it with Python 1.9.2. Avoid SSL for a while and report results here ! (I can not make this test right now for you, unfortunately).

thanks for the respond marcelobarrosalmeida, but truely i'm a new bie in this.. i'm still confuse, what should i do...
would u mind to tell me more detail??
thank you for your humble heart...

(sory about my bad english)

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Hi

Unfortunately, there is no easy way. You need to understand how pop3 works in order to receive messages and you need to understand how smtp works, for sending messages. And it is necessary to study poplib, of course.

I copied poplib from python 2.2.3 for you. Unzip and put this file inside "e:\python\lib" (memory card). Create this path, if it does not exist in your memory card.

Open python 1.4.5 and try the following code, just to get start:

import poplib
# put your pop3 mail server here
macc = poplib.POP3('mail.mail_server_here.com.br')
# put your username here
macc.user('username')
# put your password here
macc.pass_('password')
# macc.list return the email list
if macc.list():
    print "you have %d messages" % len(macc.list())
else:
    print "mailbox empty"

That is the better that I can do now. I hope it helps.

Marcelo Barros

[arie_8011]

Originally Posted by marcelobarrosalmeida

Hi

Unfortunately, there is no easy way. You need to understand how pop3 works in order to receive messages and you need to understand how smtp works, for sending messages. And it is necessary to study poplib, of course.

I copied poplib from python 2.2.3 for you. Unzip and put this file inside "e:\python\lib" (memory card). Create this path, if it does not exist in your memory card.

Open python 1.4.5 and try the following code, just to get start:

import poplib
# put your pop3 mail server here
macc = poplib.POP3('mail.mail_server_here.com.br')
# put your username here
macc.user('username')
# put your password here
macc.pass_('password')
# macc.list return the email list
if macc.list():
    print "you have %d messages" % len(macc.list())
else:
    print "mailbox empty"

That is the better that I can do now. I hope it helps.

Marcelo Barros

thanks a lot marcelobarrosalmeida. you've help me a lot...
i understand it better now...
yes you are right, "there is no easy way". i will searcing or googling some tutorials, articles, or anything else related with pop3, smtp, and mail client..
btw, do you have some articles or anything about it??
i interested in study about it. and of course i love to study harder about something that i want to know...

thanks for helping me marcelobarrosalmeida...

[marcelobarrosalmeida]

Hi
Any good computer network book talks about pop and smtp. But you can start using some mediawiki articles and google. They are relatively simple protocols and can be used even over a regular telnet connection. Afterwards it will be simple to use the corresponding python modules.

See you
Marcelo Barros