From 08512ac316d6b0455fdd0aa8b0c4c4481502bd30 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Adam Dobrawy Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2017 14:47:59 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update index.rst --- docs/index.rst | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst index 0ecaaa4..f2fb0b9 100644 --- a/docs/index.rst +++ b/docs/index.rst @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ One too many times, I'm sure. This small Django application will allow you to specify mailboxes that you would like consumed for incoming content; the e-mail will be stored, and you can process it at will (or, if you're in a hurry, by subscribing to a signal). +The Django-mailbox retrieves the e-mail messages by eg. IMAP, POP and then erases them to not download again the next time. Django-mailbox is not a typical mail program, and is a development library that makes it easy to process email messages in Django. A mailbox in that case plays the role of a message queue that needs to be processed. Messages processed from the queue are removed from the queue. + Contents: .. toctree::