Implementing an email client

[Bence Hegyi]

Dear all,

I would like to implement an application, which I would use to manage my emails (the first step would be to list the unseen messages).

I have already implemented part of the application. I created two screens managed by a screen manager. 

The first screen is the login screen, which serves two purposes:
1) prompting the user for his/her credentials

2) basic input checking

I have implemented a class which loges into my account successfully (the class has been tested outside kivy) and calling one of its functions returns the list of unseen messages.

The second screen would be the main screen of the application, which means that, I would like to initialize my EmailAccount class using the provided credentials on the first screen and list my unseen e-mails.

Unfortunately, I'm having trouble, because I haven't been able to find out, how the values, entered on the first page could be used to initialize the class. 
Having created two dummy labels on the second screen, I could test that the corresponding fields are bound together properly (I can see the values, entered on the first screen on the labels of the second screen).
However, I would like to use the values in python code and not in the kv file to run the EmailAccount class in the background (maybe periodically).

Is it possible? Could someone, please help me?

I would greatly appreciate any help!

[ZenCODE]

You could pass these as argument when you construct the class or set them as properties. Try, and post your attempts if you get stuck...:-)

[Bence Hegyi]

thank you for your reply!

I tried a couple of ways but always got stuck at the same step, which is binding the properties together and display them on the second screen.
Based on this tutorial, I created the prototype of my app. I have attached the .py and .kv files and for the sake of simplicity, I omitted the input check functionality.
I have also added some comment in the .py file about what the expected procedure would be. 
I would like to ask what I should do differently. I was thinking about initializing the email account once the button has been clicked. Would that be the better option?
If you have a better idea, could you please, help me?

Thank you for your help in advance!

2016-10-13 12:08 GMT+02:00 ZenCODE <zenkey....@gmail.com>:

You could pass these as argument when you construct the class or set them as properties. Try, and post your attempts if you get stuck...:-)

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[Samuel Loury]

Bence Hegyi <hegyi....@gmail.com> writes:

> I would like to implement an application, which I would use to manage my
> emails (the first step would be to list the unseen messages).
> I have already implemented part of the application. I created two screens
> managed by a screen manager.

I've a similar idea for some time and never went as far as implementing
something. I would like to see it and possibly contribute. Could you
put the code in some public revision control system somewhere?

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[Goffi]

Le mardi 18 octobre 2016, 14:34:53 CEST Samuel Loury a écrit :
> Bence Hegyi <hegyi....@gmail.com> writes:
> > I would like to implement an application, which I would use to manage my
> > emails (the first step would be to list the unseen messages).
> > I have already implemented part of the application. I created two screens
> > managed by a screen manager.
>
> I've a similar idea for some time and never went as far as implementing
> something. I would like to see it and possibly contribute. Could you
> put the code in some public revision control system somewhere?

Hi,


in our project (https://salut-a-toi.org) we are planing to implement email
too, but using a gateway to integrate it with XMPP (and we also plan to add
SMS, or anything actually). Our application is really advanced and I am
currently working on a Kivy frontend which I'm trying to port to Android (but
there are some trouble at the moment, c.f. my other messages on this list).

It may be interesting to collaborate if you are willing to do free software
(AGPL v3+).

you can also check my blog for more details: https://www.goffi.org .

Goffi