Check your mail

With Python, you can have your Raspberry Pi act as mail checker, giving you a running list on incoming email

Since the Raspberry Pi is such a small computer, it gets used in a lot of projects where you want to monitor a source of data. One such monitor you might want to create is a mail-checker that can display your current unread emails. This issue, we’ll look at how to use Python to create your own mail-checking monitor to run on your Pi. We will focus mainly on the communications between the Pi and the mail server and not worry too much about how it might be displayed. That will be left as a further exercise. To start with, most email servers use one of two different communication protocols. The older, simpler one was called POP (Post Office Protocol), and the newer one is called IMAP (Internet Message Access…

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