Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Introduction to poplib

Accessing an email address from Python is very simple if you have POP3 enabled. For this task, can use the poplib library. As an example, I will use Gmail. If you want to try this out for yourself, remember to enable POP3 on the Gmail website. To do this, you need to enter the configuration section inside a Gmail account. You can review Gmail account configuration section of this chapter.

This module defines a class called POP3 that encapsulates a connection to a POP3 server. This class also supports encrypted communication with the TLS protocol.

This module provides two high-level classes:

• POP()
• POP3_SSL()

Both classes implement the POP3 and POP3S protocols, respectively. The class constructor for each one accepts ...