ANN: libgmail 0.0.7 - Gmail access via Python - Now with FTP Proxy!

[Follower]

libgmail -- Python binding for Google's Gmail service

<http://libgmail.sf.net/>

The `libgmail` project is a pure Python binding to provide access to
Google's Gmail web-mail service.

The library currently ships with a demonstration utility to archive
messages from a Gmail account into mbox files, suitable for importing
into a local email client.

Also includes a demonstration utility that acts as a SMTP proxy to
allow mail to be sent from any standard mail client that uses SMTP
(e.g. Mail.app, Mozilla etc). (Now handles attachments.)

New demonstration utility to provide access to Gmail message
attachments via a download-only FTP proxy--this allows retrieval of
suitably marked attachments by a standard FTP client. Utilize more
of your Gmail space!

License: GPL 2.0 (gmailftpd.py is dual licensed with PSF)

Major changes since 0.0.6:

* Demo FTP proxy enables marked Gmail message attachments to be
download via FTP.

* Implemented sending & receiving of message attachments.

* Updated SMTP Proxy demo to handle sending attachments.

* Added 'getMessagesByQuery' function.

Major changes since 0.0.5: (Repeated from last announcement)

* Implemented SMTP proxy to enable Gmail to be send with a
standard mail client via (E)SMTP.

* Extended standard SMTP class to handle ESMTP EHLO & AUTH PLAIN commands.

* Utility function '_retrieveJavascript' to retrieve current version
of Gmail Javascript file. (By request.)


<p><a href="http://libgmail.sf.net/">libgmail 0.0.7</a> - The
`libgmail` project is a pure Python binding to provide access to
Google's Gmail web-mail service; includes SMTP & FTP
proxies. (03-Aug-04)</p>

 

[Jack Diederich]

Does anyone else keep getting CVS commit emails for libgmail?

Seriously, it is great that you are doing stuff and sharing it but
we don't need a status update every three days. Freshmeat.net and
the libgmail mailing list are both good places to post incremental
updates.

-Jack

 

[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fran=E7ois?= Pinard]

[Jack Diederich]

Seriously, it is great that you are doing stuff and sharing it but
we don't need a status update every three days.

These announcements are much more on target for the Python list than
some other posts we sometimes see here. Moreover, if the progress is
worth many announcements, they are welcome so far that I am concerned,
and the maintainer deserves at the very least the right of sharing his
enthusiasm around, where people might choose to pick it up.

A message like the one quoted above may well kill enthusiasm, and is
counter-productive. A good and nice walk outside, admiring birds,
enjoying the sun and greenery, breathing fresh air, might put everyone
in a better mood and be more useful, overall, for the community.