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tornadoweb / tornado

Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed.
http://www.tornadoweb.org/
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Including POP3 and IMAP clients #261

Closed mmalecki closed 13 years ago

mmalecki commented 13 years ago

Are there any plans on including POP3 and IMAP (and possibly different protocols) clients in tornado? I'm currently working on asynchronous implementations of both (with former almost finished). Now I'm wondering if should I add them into my repository and issue a pull request or just start a new project all by myself? Currently, they don't match HTTP asynchronous client convention (they're not divided into simple and full-blown one, there's no connection "caching"). They're almost compatible with Python's built-in poplib and imaplib.

This is an overview of POP3 client: https://gist.github.com/971309

bdarnell commented 13 years ago

I think that in general support for other protocols like this should go in a separate project rather than tornado itself.