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Camus

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Registered: 2011-07-03

Posts: 71

Most universal/common library for accessing email inbox

I'm using Gnome 3 in fallback-mode and I'd like to write a simple tool that would check my email inbox and display new emails via notify-send. I know there already exists mailnag in AUR, but the comments seem to suggest that it isn't very stable yet. Well, the main reason is actually that I'd like to get back into programming and I never coded for GNU/Linux platform before.

What would be the most universal and standard library that would allow me to get info about new emails? I'm prepared to learn anything new.

rockin turtle

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From: Montana, USA

Registered: 2009-10-22

Posts: 227

Re: Most universal/common library for accessing email inbox

Depends on what language you wish to use. I have used the imap library in python to check my gmail account. see http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/imaplib.html (python 3) or http://docs.python.org/library/imaplib.html (python 2.7). There are also libraries for POP if you prefer that over IMAP, and quite a few other useful libraries.

http://docs.python.org/py3k/library/index.html