On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > I wouldn't suggest trying to set up an SMTP server without a strong > reason, however. These things are surprisingly tricky to configure so > that your server doesn't get used for spam forwarding, and if you > don't play nicely with the SMTP community then you'll find your domain > and mail server getting added to various blacklists.
Easiest way to prevent it from forwarding spam is to make it incoming-only. But yes, you do need to know a bit about how the internet works; if all you want to do is poll for mail every X minutes, a POP3 or IMAP connection is far simpler. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
