I am writing a utility in Python and I'd like to add a command-line option "--mailto <address>" that will cause an e-mail summary to be sent to <address> when the utility finishes running.
My first thought was to use smtplib.sendmail(), and basically this works like a charm, except that this function expects a valid 'sender' address as a parameter. Every single smtplib example I've found so far shows a hardcoded 'sender' address, but as my utility can be run by any user on any system I am looking for a way to obtain or create a valid default value. I can get the username info (at least on Unix) via the 'pwd' module, but that still leaves me with the domainname, or rather the mailname, and I have not been able to spot a way of finding that from within Python. (I could try opening /etc/mailname by hand, but how standard is that filename/location?) I've also tried opening a pipe to sendmail, and feeding the message to that instead. This too works great (and does give an appropriate default 'From'), but that also turns my problem into the problem of finding the location of the sendmail program, which doesn't seem like much of an improvement, portability-wise. Finally, if at all possible I'd also like to get this working on Windows, so I'd rather stick with the standard smtplib if I can. Does anybody here have any thoughts on this? -- Leo Breebaart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
