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>>>>> "duane" == duane osterloth <> writes:

duane> I'm looking for a stand alone email program which is not
duane> browser based. I simply want to write, send and receive
duane> email without accessing the internet. Is Python 3.0 that
duane> kind of program? I'd appreciate your response.

Hi Duane,

I'm a little confused by your request to send and receive email
without accessing the internet, since email generally travels over the
internet. Do you only want to handle email over an internal network?
Or did you mean that you wanted to do this without accessing an
internet browser such as Internet Explorer? I'm guessing the latter.

In any case, python has a full complement of internet ready modules to
send and receive email, so it will serve your purposes well. Go to
http://groups.google.com and search for

python email

and read through some of the responses. Consider also reading the
book "Foundations of Python Network Programming", and take a look at
the documentation for some of the modules related to email handling in
the internet protocols sections of the python standard library
reference at http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/internet.html.

Note that python 2.3.4 is the latest official release. python 3.0
does not exist, though some people have spoken of python 3.0 and
python 3000 generically in terms of a future python release that will
include certain language constructs not available today.

JDH

> duane> I'm looking for a stand alone email program which is not
> duane> browser based. I simply want to write, send and receive
> duane> email without accessing the internet. Is Python 3.0 that
> duane> kind of program? I'd appreciate your response.
> I'm a little confused by your request to send and receive email
> without accessing the internet, since email generally travels over the
> internet. Do you only want to handle email over an internal network?
> Or did you mean that you wanted to do this without accessing an
> internet browser such as Internet Explorer? I'm guessing the latter.

I think he wants something more along the lines of Outlook/Thunderbird...

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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch

On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 21:44:02 -0600, rumours say that John Hunter
<> might have written:

>I'm a little confused by your request to send and receive email
>without accessing the internet, since email generally travels over the
>internet. Do you only want to handle email over an internal network?
>Or did you mean that you wanted to do this without accessing an
>internet browser such as Internet Explorer? I'm guessing the latter.

I guess he doesn't want the email *originating* application to access
the internet; rather to use some local MAPI object-model which then
takes care to forward messages over the local network or whatever the
setup is.
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"Be strict when sending and tolerant when receiving." (from RFC195
I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...