>From: Dennis Lee Bieber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: python-list@python.org >Subject: Re: Can't Get Email Interface Working >Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 20:07:53 GMT > >On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 13:42:38 -0500, "Eric Price" ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> declaimed the following in >comp.lang.python: > > > > Complain to the providers of the server? Or find out what the host > > >name is for the outgoing SMTPd connection, and use it directly. > > > > Complaining isn't going to help. How do I determine the outgoing smtpd > > connection and how do I use it directly? > > You're going to have to go to the people who administer that machine >one way or another... If gethostname() is returning an invalid name, >there is a system misconfiguration either on that host, or in some DNS >system used by that host.
Okay, can you tell me what I need to tell them? If I simply say that python's gethostname() isn't returning the correct value, they'll just tell me they don't service python...and it's my problem :) > > Furthermore, on second review of your original post, it is not the >attempt to access SMTPd that is failing (you didn't even get to trying >to connect to an SMTPd on "localhost") -- it is the MIME package trying >to generate a unique boundary string to be used in separating the >alternate parts of your message. I know. > > Do you really NEED to send it in both "plain text" and "html" >formats? If you can get by with just plain text, you could drop the >whole MIME portion. No. I also tried the little script that's in Guido's explanation of smtplib and got the same error for now-obvious reasons. I'll revert to that most probably. TIA, Eric _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07 -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
