Hi,
Following are some of the links I came across while trying to make a python based rss aggregator. Although the following resources(links) can guide to some really cool stuff, my plan is to have a python based rss aggregator customized to present information in some really cool ways like depending on my usage, tell me which news i like the most and present those and so on. If they are really nice info, I should be able to send it to my news group > uit_tvm, by just a click of a button. I will keep you guys updated on the status of the project.

As per current requirements, the project has 2 parts
1. Python parser - which fetches rss feeds from sites
2. Email the feeds to uit_tvm - either I need to run my own email server(which is really cool ) or I need to access GMail/Yahoomail using python API provided by yahoo.

So the following links to point to the above mentioned ideas.

Email APIs
Send email in python
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread136280.html

Accessing your Gmail inbox with Pythonhttp://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2004/06/18/1751
libgmail — Python binding

SendYmail
http://sendymail.sourceforge.net/

About BBauth required for yahoo mail APIhttp://www.isolani.co.uk/blog/web/LondonHackdayBbauthAndYahooMail

for Google's Gmail service
http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/

Running your own server
Apache emal serverhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_James Comparison of mail servershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_mail_servers

Misc
PyDigg - A Python Toolkit for the Digg API
http://neothoughts.com/2007/04/30/pydigg-a-python-toolkit-for-the-digg-api/







Accessing Yahoo Mail withtout POP
http://bytes.com/forum/thread521242.html

Yahoo! Mail Web Service Code Samples
http://developer.yahoo.com/mail/code/

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