On Aug 28, 12:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I work at a training center and I would like to use Python to generate > a number of certificates and then e-mail them. The certificates are a > problem for another day - right now I just want to figure out how to > send an e-mail. > > I confess I don't know much about the protocol(s) for e-mail. In PHP > using CodeIgniter, the same task was amazingly easy. I think this is a > bit harder because I'm not executing code on a remote machine that has > its own SMTP server. According to (http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/ > Python-Email-Libraries-SMTP-and-Email-Parsing/), I need to use the > SMTP object found in the smtplib module to initiate a connection to a > server before I can send. I want to use Gmail, but on the following > input it stalls and then raises smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: > > server = SMTP("smtp.gmail.com") > > I also pinged smtp.gmail.com and tried it with the dotted quad IP as a > string. Am I on the right track? Is this a problem with gmail, or have > I gotten an assumption wrong? > > Here's a thought: Could I use SMTPServer (http://docs.python.org/lib/ > node620.html) to obviate the need to have anything to do with Gmail? > What would be the limitations on that? Could I successfully do this > and wrap the whole thing up in a black box? What modules would I need? > > Thanks.
Gmail SMTP server needs authentication. I little googling found this example. I did not test it if it works but it could be starting point. http://codecomments.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/python-gmail-smtp-example/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
