Hi On Thu, 19 Dec 2013 01:23:58 -0800 (PST) Michał Pasternak <michal....@gmail.com> wrote: > I would like to announce a GUI app, written in wxPython, that I > quickly assembled yesterday mainly using some code from StackOverflow > and Google. > > The app is called wxMailServer and all it does is: it acts as a mail > server (it listens for traffic incoming at localhost port 25) and > when an e-mail is received, it displays this e-mail, highlighting URL > addresses in it and launching a web browser in case you click on any > of those addresses.
An interesting idea. However, running a program that tries to open a port <1024 results on security issues on modern machines. Only system process are allowed (or should be allowed) to open ports there. Luckily enough, if your software has an option to start with listening on a different port, you can also set that port when telling django how to send emails. > E-mail sending is getting harder and harder nowadays, with my VM > unable to send e-mail because of local antivirus, and if I disable > it, I get notices from Google about being on an IP that is not > allowed to send e-mails. So, anyway, it looks harder and harder. Why > do that, then? E-mail server running on localhost, displaying > incoming e-mails should be the best tool to test if your app > generates proper e-mails. "Sending emails" for testing? There is this email-backend in django that just displays the messages on the console. Ideal for manual testing. And for automated testing (the only way to make sure you really always send emails with the wanted content) you just look at mailbox.outbox as described in django testing docs. Lastly there are several thousand valid reasons for mailservers not to accept un-authenticated email delivery from dail-ups and dynamic ranges. (These mails are largely called spam and are sent by botnets.) Have fun, Arnold PS: If you really want your local django to send mails to the outside via google, you can just do smtp-authentication with your valid google credentials...
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