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Re: Scraping email to make invoice

From Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: Scraping email to make invoice
Date 2016-04-25 11:16 -0600
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On 04/25/2016 08:39 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Your normal gmail password is used for IMAP.

Actually, no, unless you explicitly tell Google to allow "less-secure"
authentication.  Otherwise you are required to set up a special,
application-specific password.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/185833?hl=en

> Warning: don't use the basic imaplib.  IMAP is a miserable protocol,
> and imap lib is too thin a wrapper. It'll make you bleed from the ears
> and wish you were dead.  Use imapclient or imaplib2.  I've used both
> (with Gmail's IMAP server), and IMO both are pretty good.  Either one
> is miles ahead of plain imaplib.

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Scraping email to make invoice CM <cmpython@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 11:58 -0700
  Re: Scraping email to make invoice Friedrich Rentsch <anthra.norell@bluewin.ch> - 2016-04-24 22:38 +0200
  Re: Scraping email to make invoice Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-04-24 17:19 -0600
  Re: Scraping email to make invoice Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 14:39 +0000
  Re: Scraping email to make invoice Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 11:16 -0600
  Re: Scraping email to make invoice Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> - 2016-04-25 17:59 +0000

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