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POP connection and authentication with APOP

import getpass, poplib, sys host = "server.com" user = "userName" passwd = "password" p = poplib.POP3(host) try:     print "authenticating..."     p.apop(user, passwd) except poplib.error_proto:     try:         p.user(user)         p.pass_(passwd)     except poplib.error_proto, e:         print "Login failed:", e         sys.exit(1) status = p.stat() print "Mailbox has %d messages for a total of %d bytes" % (status[0], status[1]) p.quit()