Alternatives to Bulk Downloading

In our recent guide through retrieving POP3 email with poplib, we finished with downloading the messages en masse. With a bit more coding, however, you can retrieve messages piecemeal, calculating the number of messages currently logged and appending the new ones to the local file. To do this, you should use the list and retr methods of the Mailbox class. To learn more about them, see "Managing a POP3 Mailbox"