diff --git a/reddit/reddit.py b/reddit/reddit.py
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+import simplejson as json
+import urllib2
+import urllib
+from datetime import datetime
+
+class Message(dict):
+    """ Reddit Message """
+
+    def __init__(self, dict=None):
+        if dict:
+            self.dictitems = dict
+
+    def __getattr__(self, name):
+        return self.dictitems[name]
+
+    def __unicode__(self):
+        return u"%s: %s" % (self.author, self.subject)
+
+    def __str__(self):
+        return self.__unicode__()
+
+class Inbox():
+    """ Reddit Inbox class, accesses a user's inbox and provides a iterable 
+        list of messages """    
+
+    REDDIT = "http://www.reddit.com"
+    REDDIT_API_LOGIN = "%s/api/login" % REDDIT
+    REDDIT_API_INBOX = "%s/message/inbox/.json?mark=false" % REDDIT
+
+    def __init__(self, username, password):
+
+        self.opener = urllib2.build_opener(urllib2.HTTPCookieProcessor())
+        urllib2.install_opener(self.opener)
+
+
+        data = { 'user': username,
+                 'passwd': password, 
+                 'api_type': 'json' }
+       
+
+        url = "%s/%s" % (self.REDDIT_API_LOGIN, username)
+        print url
+        req = urllib2.Request( url, urllib.urlencode(data))
+        jsondoc = json.load(self.opener.open(req))
+        
+        self.login_cookie = jsondoc['json']['data']['cookie']
+
+    @property
+    def _inbox_data(self):
+
+        if not hasattr(self, '__inbox_cache'):
+            inbox = json.load(self.opener.open(self.REDDIT_API_INBOX))['data']
+            
+            self.__inbox_cache = []
+            for msg in inbox['children']:
+                print msg['data']
+                self.__inbox_cache.append(Message(msg['data']))
+             
+        return self.__inbox_cache
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(self._inbox_data)
+
+    def __getitem__(self, name):
+        return self._inbox_data[name]
+
+    def __iter__(self):
+        return self._inbox_data.__iter__()
+