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MBOX-Line: From johnl-imap at iecc.com Wed Dec 28 08:13:05 2016
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To: imap-protocol@u.washington.edu
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From: John Levine <johnl-imap@iecc.com>
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Date: Fri Jun 8 12:34:55 2018
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Subject: [Imap-protocol] is IMAP still the protocol to use to read
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emails???
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In-Reply-To: <7b8b6e00-3396-2c08-f58e-290d619214ea@gmail.com>
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Message-ID: <20161228161305.29711.qmail@ary.lan>
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In article <7b8b6e00-3396-2c08-f58e-290d619214ea@gmail.com> you write:
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>I am a little confused. I code in Python ( 3.5.1) and I am "trying" to read the body of
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>messages from a gmail account. The issue is that I see a lot of POP3 activity on stack
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>exchange and google but very little for IMAP. So is IMAP dead? If so what should I be
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>looking at?
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IMAP is very much alive. Approximately every smartphone in the world uses it to
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handle their users' email accounts.
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The reason you see so much more about POP3 is that POP is about 1/100 as complex
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as IMAP, so if can do what you want, it's much easier to use.
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>All I want to do is read in my email body and do something with it. I really am having
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>issues like the one below.
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I've found that the third party python imapclient library is a lot
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easier to use than the standard imaplib. It deals with many of the
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datatype strangenesses you've been running into.
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R's,
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John
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