email attachments for single userand avoids some of the prior version' exhaustive mail downloads it only fetches message headers for the list pageand only downloads the full text of the single message selected for viewing new in version pymailcgi now runs on python (only)and employs many of the new features of the mailtools packagedecoding and encoding of internationalized headersdecoding of main mail textand so on due to regression in python ' cgi and email supportversion does not support sending of binary or incompatibly-encoded text attachmentsthough attachments on fetched mails can always be viewed (see and also seethe pymailgui program in the internet directorywhich implements more complete client-side python+tk email gui the pymail py program in the email directorywhich provides simple console command-line email interface the python imaplib module which supports the imap email protocol instead of pop < href="<img src="pythonpoweredsmall gifalign=left alt="[python logo]border= hspace= the file pymailcgi html is the system' root page and lives in pymailcgi subdirectory which is dedicated to this application and helps keep its files separate from other examples to access this systemstart your locally running web server as described in the preceding section and then point your browser to the following url (or do the right thing for whatever other web server you may be using)if you dothe server will ship back page such as that captured in figure - shown rendered in the google chrome web browser client on windows ' using chrome instead of internet explorer throughout this for varietyand because it tends to yield concise page which shows more details legibly open this in your own browser to see it live--this system is as portable as the webhtmland python-coded cgi scripts configuring pymailcgi nowbefore you click on the "view link in figure - expecting to read your own emaili should point out that by defaultpymailcgi allows anybody to send email from this page with the send link (as we learned earlierthere are no passwords in smtpit does nothoweverallow arbitrary users on the web to read their email the pymailcgi server