PopChecker

#!/usr/bin/env python
 
"""\
This program checks for mail in a pop account and displays some header
information of it and which size the mail has.
"""
 
import sys
import getpass
import poplib
 
# used variables
messages= []
 
# ask for popserver, username and password and delete the newline char
print "popserver: ",
popserver= sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
print "username: ",
username= sys.stdin.readline()[:-1]
password= getpass.getpass("password: ")
 
# open the popserver
pop= poplib.POP3(popserver)
 
# enter the server
pop.apop(username, password)
 
# for every message
for i in range(0, len(pop.list()[1])):
    # this is one message(-header)
    msg= pop.top(i+1,0)[1]
 
    # these are the needed fields
    h_from= ''
    h_date= ''
    h_to= ''
    h_subject=''
    size= ''
 
    # fill the fields
    for line in msg:
        if line[:5] == 'From:': h_from= line
        if line[:5] == 'Date:': h_date= line
        if line[:3] == 'To:': h_to= line
        if line[:8] == 'Subject:': h_subject= line
    size= pop.top(i+1,0)[2]
 
    messages.append({'from':h_from, 'date':h_date, 'to': h_to, 'subject':h_subject, 'size':size})
 
    print
    print messages[i]['from']
    print messages[i]['date']
    print messages[i]['to']
    print messages[i]['subject']
    print 'Size:',messages[i]['size'], 'octets'
 
pop.quit()