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Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

You're reading from   Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators Write scripts and automate them for real-world administration tasks using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789133226
Length 318 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ganesh Sanjiv Naik Ganesh Sanjiv Naik
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Preface 1. Python Scripting Overview FREE CHAPTER 2. Debugging and Profiling Python Scripts 3. Unit Testing - Introduction to the Unit Testing Framework 4. Automating Regular Administrative Activities 5. Handling Files, Directories, and Data 6. File Archiving, Encrypting, and Decrypting 7. Text Processing and Regular Expressions 8. Documentation and Reporting 9. Working with Various Files 10. Basic Networking - Socket Programming 11. Handling Emails Using Python Scripting 12. Remote Monitoring of Hosts Over Telnet and SSH 13. Building Graphical User Interfaces 14. Working with Apache and Other Log Files 15. SOAP and REST API Communication 16. Web Scraping - Extracting Useful Data from Websites 17. Statistics Gathering and Reporting 18. MySQL and SQLite Database Administrations 19. Assessments 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

POP3 and IMAP servers

In this section, you'll learn about receiving emails via POP and IMAP servers. Python offers the poplib and imaplib libraries for receiving emails via Python scripts.

Receiving email using the poplib library

POP3 stands for Post Office Protocol version 3. This standard protocol helps you receive emails from a remote server to our local machine. The main advantage of POP3 is that it allows us to download emails on to our local machine and read the downloaded emails offline.

The POP3 protocol works on two ports:

  • Port 110: The default non-encrypted port
  • Port 995: The encrypted port

Now, we'll see some examples. First, we'll see an example where we get a number of emails. For that, create...

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