def generate_config(conf, section="46elks"):
    """
    Generates a configuration file using the ConfigParser library that
    can be saved to a file for subsequent reads
    """
    config = ConfigParser.RawConfigParser()
    config.add_section(section)
    if 'username' in conf:
        config.set(section, 'username', conf['username'])
    if 'password' in conf:
        config.set(section, "password", conf['password'])
    if 'to' in conf:
        config.set(section, "to", conf['to'])
    if 'from' in conf:
        config.set(section, "from", conf['from'])
    if not config.items(section):
        error = "You need to provide options to be stored as"
        error += " commandline options"
        print(error, file=sys.stderr)
    if 'verbose' in conf:
        print("Wrote to the config file :)")
    return config
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