accounts without either typing an explicit and unsafe url or doing bit of installation and configuration this is on purposeand it has to do with security constraintsas we'll see laterpymailcgi is written such that it never associates your email username and password together without encryption this isn' an issue if your web server is running locallyof coursebut this policy is in place in case you ever run this system remotely across the web by defaultthenthis page is set up to read the email account shown in this book-address pp @learning-python com--and requires that account' pop password to do so since you probably can' guess the password (and wouldn' find its email all that interesting if you could!)pymailcgi is not incredibly useful as shipped to use it to read your email insteadyou'll want to change its mailconfig py mail configuration file to reflect your mail account' details we'll see this file laterfor nowthe examples here will use the book' pop email accountit works the same wayregardless of which account it accesses sending mail by smtp pymailcgi supports two main functionsas links on the root pagecomposing and sending new mail to othersand viewing incoming mail the view function leads to sending mail by smtp