Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 15:12:03 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> Cc: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Email processing in Python (was: e-mail processing in C) Message-ID: <18407.64771.350992.285915@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <874paw3q94.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <18407.62370.787768.503114@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <874paw3q94.fsf@kobe.laptop>
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Giorgos Keramidas writes: > No, there's no library for `email processing' in the C standard. You > can probably find a lot of non-standard ones, by Googling however :) > > It's worth writing that plain C is the wrong language for this > sort of thing, if you ask me. There are excellent high-level > libraries in Perl, and Python to do this sort of thing. On one hand, that's probably true. On the other hand: I know zero Python and this much > < Perl. I tried Perl, actually, and couldn't find the functions I needed. (Plus the documemtation was aimed at a more experienced audience.) I can fumble my way around a decent C packagei less time ad with less hair-rending. I do have the advantage I know more-or-less exactly what the message will look like. Robert Huff
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