In message <mailman.1600.1286865707.29448.python-l...@python.org>, Chris Rebert wrote:
> On the gripping hand, you should consider just using smtplib to send > the email directly from Python and thus avoid having to run an > external command at all: > http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html But then you have to worry about configuration settings to communicate with the right SMTP server. Household-name programs like Mutt simply spawn a /usr/sbin/sendmail command, on the assumption that that already knows the right configuration settings, no need to duplicate them, so why not follow that example? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list