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12.5 mhlib -- Access to MH mailboxes

The mhlib module provides a Python interface to MH folders and their contents.

The module contains three basic classes, MH, which represents a particular collection of folders, Folder, which represents a single folder, and Message, which represents a single message.

class MH(

[path[, profile]])

MH represents a collection of MH folders.

class Folder(

mh, name)

The Folder class represents a single folder and its messages.

class Message(

folder, number[, name])

Message objects represent individual messages in a folder. The Message class is derived from mimetools.Message.

• 12.5.1 MH Objects
• 12.5.2 Folder Objects
• 12.5.3 Message Objects

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Release 2.4c1, documentation updated on 18 November 2004.