Mail and News Message Processing
“To be removed from our list of future commercial postings by [SOME] PUBLISHING COMPANY an Annual Charge of Ninety Five dollars is required. Just send $95.00 with your Name, Address and Name of the Newsgroup to be removed from our list”
newsgroup spammer, July 1996
Overview
Python comes with a rich set of modules for processing mail and news messages, as well as some common mail archive (mailbox) formats.