This may or may not be useful to you, but I use this to handle email from scripts and programs:
Now that you mention this, I recall you suggesting it on this or the fedora list before and I recall the squabbling over its name and hence exclusion from the package repos:)
I don't want to worry about adding a package as I want to update all my scripts no production boxes to use something in base or at worst, rpmforge.
I don't know python...
Thanks guys! jlc