On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:18:08 +1100, William Connery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >I have a small python program with e-mail capabilities that I have >pieced together from code snippets found on the internet. > >The program uses the smtplib module to successfully send an e-mail with >an attachment. > >I want to give users an indication of the percentage of the e-mail that >has already been sent so as to avoid frustration when dealing with large >attachments or a slow smtp server. But the smtplib module doesn't seem >to provide access to the number of bytes that have already been sent. > >Can anyone help, or provide a working example of sending an e-mail >attachment using basic python sockets whilst having access to the number >of bytes that have already been sent through the socket?
You could probably hack something up with smtplib, but it's a lot easier to do this with Twisted's SMTP client. Twisted's sendmail function takes a file-like object instead of a string. You can wrap a real file and present a read method which keeps track of how many bytes have been read and updates some UI with this information. You can find a simple example of using Twisted's SMTP client here: http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/browser/trunk/doc/mail/examples/smtpclient_tls.py Jean-Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
