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Notes about reading messages with the Python email packages

55 points by ankitg12 5mo ago

dwedge 5mo ago
I know this is terminal based and kind of the point but I found it interesting that neither this post, nor any of the linked ones or linked email software clients he uses have screenshots. I know they are TUIs but I was still curious how they look.
- theamk 5mo ago
  It is not even TUI, it is just library/API. It cannot print the text on the screen, it returns python's internal data structures. I guess if one really wanted to show off the libraries, they could create some sample programs that'd render some sample messages to plain text, TUI or even a web page, but that seems pretty out-of-scope for the simple blog post like that one.
postdoc74 5mo ago
I've had a lot of fun vibe coding my own text-based email client and reader using mostly Python's stdlib. It is my daily driver and found no problem with parsing so far. It also leads to a very efficient and simple HTML reader submodule. https://juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/ https://juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/
- nsagent 5mo ago
  I use mblaze as it's just a suite of commandline tools that are conducive to the Unix philosophy (easy to pipe output to build more complex usecases), but I'll take a look at yours to see how it compares. Thanks for sharing! https://git.vuxu.org/mblaze/ https://git.vuxu.org/mblaze/
mrenzo 5mo ago
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Insimwytim 5mo ago
My LTS Firefox deemed too old by this page. (302 to https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser.html https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser....) Hasn't happened just a month ago or so. Funnily enough, curl (not a recent version, I might add) works fine. P.S. Downvote all you want, but provide a reason. My message just stated facts, not an opinion.
naina12 5mo ago
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threecheese 5mo ago
Author is blocking AdGuard VPN; while I understand the goal - especially today - this is the only tool I’ve found which appears to reduce tracking, and I just never turn it off. Without it (for example) my Amazon visits become TikTok ads within minutes.
ian_holt 5mo ago
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55 points by ankitg12 5mo ago

I know this is terminal based and kind of the point but I found it interesting that neither this post, nor any of the linked ones or linked email software clients he uses have screenshots. I know they are TUIs but I was still curious how they look.

theamk 5mo ago
It is not even TUI, it is just library/API. It cannot print the text on the screen, it returns python's internal data structures. I guess if one really wanted to show off the libraries, they could create some sample programs that'd render some sample messages to plain text, TUI or even a web page, but that seems pretty out-of-scope for the simple blog post like that one.

postdoc74 5mo ago

I've had a lot of fun vibe coding my own text-based email client and reader using mostly Python's stdlib. It is my daily driver and found no problem with parsing so far. It also leads to a very efficient and simple HTML reader submodule. https://juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/ https://juanjosegarciaripoll.github.io/pony/

nsagent 5mo ago
I use mblaze as it's just a suite of commandline tools that are conducive to the Unix philosophy (easy to pipe output to build more complex usecases), but I'll take a look at yours to see how it compares. Thanks for sharing! https://git.vuxu.org/mblaze/ https://git.vuxu.org/mblaze/

mrenzo 5mo ago

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Insimwytim 5mo ago

My LTS Firefox deemed too old by this page. (302 to https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser.html https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/cspace-bad/cspace-old-browser....) Hasn't happened just a month ago or so. Funnily enough, curl (not a recent version, I might add) works fine. P.S. Downvote all you want, but provide a reason. My message just stated facts, not an opinion.

naina12 5mo ago

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threecheese 5mo ago

Author is blocking AdGuard VPN; while I understand the goal - especially today - this is the only tool I’ve found which appears to reduce tracking, and I just never turn it off. Without it (for example) my Amazon visits become TikTok ads within minutes.

ian_holt 5mo ago

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