Hi Raymond,
This is exactly what I try to do, to set up an email list through a gmail account. I have some problems though...
What the idea is: using Python and imaplib I wrote a short script (getmail) what downloads incoming emails, stores email body and subject in text files and attachments in a directory. Then, I do some check on the email. Finally, using smtplib, mimetypes and email modules I put the subject, text and attachment together and send it out to a list of addresses from gmail.
The incoming emails are in Hungarian, mostly using iso-8859-2. And here is my problem, I could not yet reverse engineer the encodings. Some emails are completely unreadable. I guess, gmail uses base64 and utf-8. Using these encodings characters like áűőúóüö go through between gmail accounts, but they don't for all incoming emails. It seems random to me at this time.
I am new to this area. Could you, or anyone, give me some hint on encodings? What do I need to do to get it work in general.
Thank you!
Peter