I have a free web mail address and would like to use python to retrieve
files that have been emailed to me. The basic code would accommodate
cookies, a login name and password, then download using the full URL I
can provide. From postings here I thought mechanize held promise, but
I've found it to contain filenames that are invalid for MSDOS (too many
characters, and/or too many dots in the name, etc.) so I have little hope
that the mechanize module can be used.
I'm running python2.4.2 on plain MSDOS (not windows), so would appreciate
a pointer to sample code that can do the job. I know that curl has this
capability, but I'll learn something by tinkering with python code.
Thanks.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
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On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 01:47 +0000, John Savage wrote:
I have a free web mail address and would like to use python to retrieve
files that have been emailed to me. The basic code would accommodate
cookies, a login name and password, then download using the full URL I
can provide. From postings here I thought mechanize held promise, but
I've found it to contain filenames that are invalid for MSDOS (too many
characters, and/or too many dots in the name, etc.) so I have little hope
that the mechanize module can be used.
I'm running python2.4.2 on plain MSDOS (not windows), so would appreciate
a pointer to sample code that can do the job. I know that curl has this
capability, but I'll learn something by tinkering with python code.
PyCurl certainly does have that capability, although the docs were
practically non-existent last I looked (and I've not tried it on DOS).
Still Google will help get you through it, along with the examples
included with the package, and once it's working PyCurl does an
outstanding job.
You might take a look at Beautiful Soup for parsing the HTML once PyCurl
has fetched it for you: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
Also, no matter what method you finally end up with, you'll undoubtedly
need to mangle long filenames into 8.3 names, at least for attachments
and the like.
Regards,
Cliff
--
"John Savage" <ro*******@subu rbian.com.auwro te in message
news:06******** *************** ********@suburb ian.com...
I have a free web mail address and would like to use python to retrieve
files that have been emailed to me. The basic code would accommodate
cookies, a login name and password, then download using the full URL I
can provide. From postings here I thought mechanize held promise, but
I've found it to contain filenames that are invalid for MSDOS (too many
characters, and/or too many dots in the name, etc.) so I have little hope
that the mechanize module can be used.
I'm running python2.4.2 on plain MSDOS (not windows), so would appreciate
a pointer to sample code that can do the job. I know that curl has this
capability, but I'll learn something by tinkering with python code.
Thanks.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)
Instead of mimicking a browser to access this e-mail account through the web
interface, see if there is a POP3 access to your free e-mail (I'd be
surprised if there isn't). POP3 programming (using the supplied poplib
module) is *very* simple in Python, handles login name and pwd, no
cookie-ing required. The Python docs include this example: http://docs.python.org/lib/pop3-example.html
-- Paul
"Paul McGuire" <pt***@austin.r r._bogus_.comwr ote in message
news:Bg******** ***********@tor nado.texas.rr.c om...
Instead of mimicking a browser to access this e-mail account through the
web
interface, see if there is a POP3 access to your free e-mail (I'd be
surprised if there isn't).
To the contrary: Yahoo, for instance, charges for POP3 access; for 'free'
browser access, you 'pay' by exposure to ads. I imagine others do the
same. And yes, paying $20/year for the POP3 access should be worth it to
most people.
tjr
On 2006-08-01 13:41:47, Terry Reedy wrote:
>Instead of mimicking a browser to access this e-mail account through the
web interface, see if there is a POP3 access to your free e-mail (I'd
be surprised if there isn't).
To the contrary: Yahoo, for instance, charges for POP3 access; for 'free'
browser access, you 'pay' by exposure to ads. I imagine others do the
same.
Not all. E.g. Google allows (free) POP3 access to the free Gmail accounts.
If you don't want to change your e.g. Yahoo email address, you may be able
to set up an auto-forwarder on Yahoo and retrieve from Gmail.
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