On 2005-02-14, Paul Rubin <http> wrote:
Is there a library somewhere that impliments the IMAP protocol
syntax?
It's very messy.
It sure is. You'd think something intended to be
machine-readable would be easier to parse.
I don't know of one that's in distribution.
That's what I thought based on my Google results, but I thought
I'd ask.
I think there's one buried inside a certain commercial
product. I wrote one a while back that is currently
inaccessible (disk crash, need to get it recovered) but it's
not really useable. IMAP syntax is very very messy. Are you
trying to write an IMAP server?
No, I'm writing a client, and I was a bit surprised to find out
that imaplib doesn't really parse the responses at all. Since
I'm writing a client I only have to parse the responses to the
commands that I actually send, but it still a bit messy.
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