Grant, Chris Thanks !!! I guess in the end this is a bad idea, (for my purposes) I should just use my gmail account smtp server.
Vincent Davis 720-301-3003 On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 4:13 AM, Vincent Davis <vinc...@vincentdavis.net> > wrote: > > Let me rephrase my question. I want to send an email using python but do > not > > want to use an external service. Does python have the ability to send > emails > > without installing additional software or using an external > server/service? > > Any SMTP server you install has to do one of three things with the > mail you give it: > > 1) Accept it locally. Presumably the wrong thing to do here. > 2) Deliver it to the authoritative SMTP server for the domain. > 3) Deliver it to an intermediate server. > > (Edit: Your next mail shows that you understand that, as looking up > the MX record is what I was going to say here.) > > So if you want to avoid using an external intermediate server, you > need to find and talk to the authoritative server. Now, this is where > another big consideration comes in. What envelope From address are you > going to use? Is your own IP address allowed to send mail for that > domain? If not, you may be forced to use the legitimate server for > that domain. There are other concerns, too; if you don't have a nice > name to announce in the HELO, you might find your mail treated as > spam. But if you deal with all that, then yes, the only thing you need > to do is look up the MX record and pick the best server. (And then > deal with other concerns like coping with that one being down, which > is the advantage of having a local mail queue. But sometimes that > doesn't matter, like if you're sending to yourself for notifications.) > > ChrisA > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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