guptha wrote:
Hi group,
This is my first programme in python ,I need to know whether my code
is in the right path of performance
I wrote a code using multithreading to send mails
FROM = '....com'
SUBJECT = 'This is the subject'
MSGBODY = 'This the body of the message '
MAILSERVER = 'mail....com'
port = 25
username = 'username'
password = 'pass'
# trim the strings of any leading or trailing spaces
FROM = FROM.strip()
SUBJECT = SUBJECT.strip()
MSGBODY = MSGBODY.strip()
MAILSERVER = MAILSERVER.strip()
username = username.strip()
password = password.strip()
# set up email parameters
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = FROM
msg['Subject'] = SUBJECT
#--------------------------------------------------
print "Starting Multi Thread Method"
class MyThread(Thread):
def __init__(self, site, FROM, MSGBODY):
Thread.__init__(self)
self.site = site
self.FROM=FROM
self.MSGBODY=MSGBODY
def run(self):
#Connect to server
print 'Connecting to mail server ', MAILSERVER
try:
s = smtplib.SMTP(MAILSERVER,port)
print 'connected'
#s.set_debuglevel(1)
except:
print 'ERROR: Unable to connect to mail server', sys.exc_info
()[0]
sys.exit(1)
#login to server
if password <> '':
print 'Logging into mail server'
try:
s.login(username,password)
except:
print 'ERROR: Unable to login to mail server',
MAILSERVER
print 'Please recheck your password'
sys.exit(1)
print "running for %s " %self.site
print s
s.sendmail(self.FROM, self.site, self.MSGBODY)
print "from %s" %self.FROM
print "msg %s" %self.MSGBODY
print "Emailed for site %s" %self.site
s.quit()
s.close()
a= time.time()
threads = []
for site in listTo:
T = MyThread(site,FROM,MSGBODY)
threads.append(T)
T.start()
for i in threads:
i.join()
print "Took %s seconds" %str(time.time()-a)
#-----------------------------------------------------
The code Works fine ,but I doubt about the performance issue ,My
intention is to send mails concurrently to large number of mail.
1.For every mail id i send It creates a new SMTP object,in case, if i
send to 1000 or more ids
a) It obliviously creates that much SMPT connections ,is this a
right approach .
Thanks in Advance
Any program that launches multiple threads is not a "simple program,"
especially for a first time user.
I don't know smtplib at all, so these questions may be off-base. First,
sendmail() takes as its second argument a list of to_addr, so why not
send these all as a single operation? If that would work, this would
degenerate into a much simpler program. More importantly, it should
generate much less traffic between your machine and your smtp server,
and probably less traffic between that server and the actual destination
domains. I have to assume that if it's a single sendmail request, the
server would then batch-send them to each unique domain in the to_addrs
list. Anyway, what if the message body be a couple of megabytes, and
you're sending it to 100 people? Sending a single message with a list
in to_list would save tons of time.
Second, if you do have to send them all separately (for example, if you
had different mail_options, which you don't yet), then I question the
need or workability of using a separate thread for all of them. Trying
to open 1000 threads is very resource hungry, Trying to open that many
smtp connections is even worse. One of these is likely to fail. And
I'm guessing that beyond 10 or so, it'd run at least as fast with a
different approach.
If I had to do something like this, I'd expect to wind up with some
number (say 10) of threads, and a queue of things for them to do. So if
you had 1000 things, each thread would do approximately 100 of them.
Now, sharing a queue like that is more work, with more things to mess
up. Currently your threads share only read-only data, which makes
threads pretty straightforward.
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