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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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