Alternatives to Bulk Downloading
Friday July 4, 2008
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"