Re: [Imap-protocol] is IMAP still the protocol to use to read emails???

In article <[email protected]> you write:
>I am a little confused. I code in Python ( 3.5.1) and I am "trying" to read the body of
>messages from a gmail account.  The issue is that I see a lot of POP3 activity on stack
>exchange and google but very little for IMAP. So is IMAP dead? If so what should I be
>looking at?

IMAP is very much alive.  Approximately every smartphone in the world uses it to
handle their users' email accounts.

The reason you see so much more about POP3 is that POP is about 1/100 as complex
as IMAP, so if can do what you want, it's much easier to use.

>All I want to do is read in my email body and do something with it. I really am having
>issues like the one below.

I've found that the third party python imapclient library is a lot
easier to use than the standard imaplib.  It deals with many of the
datatype strangenesses you've been running into.

R's,
John
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