Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-26 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:50:26 +0100, rumours say that Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >I agree that there's an element of the moral imperative in my assertion >that the mails "should" go through which is largely ignored by the real >world nowadays. Some ISPs force you to use

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-26 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:48:41 +0200, rumours say that Piet van Oostrum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> might have written: >And most smtp servers that I know also pass mail from any from-address to >any to-address if the IP number of he client machine belongs to a trusted >range (usually the range that belongs

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: > Steve Holden wrote: > >>Peter Hansen wrote: >> >>>In any case, unless the mail server will allow "relaying", which most >>>don't these days (to prevent spamming), then it won't work the way you >>>are hoping unless *all* the 100 addresses are local ones, to be >>>delivered

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Steve Holden wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >> In any case, unless the mail server will allow "relaying", which most >> don't these days (to prevent spamming), then it won't work the way you >> are hoping unless *all* the 100 addresses are local ones, to be >> delivered to users on the server you

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Mike Meyer
Peter Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Daniel Dittmar wrote: >> Chris Dewin wrote: >>> Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list >>> from my website. >>> >>> s = smtplib.SMTP("server") >>> s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) >>> >>> I know that in this instance, the

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Piet van Oostrum
> Steve Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (SH) wrote: >SH> To add one final note, if the "fromaddress" belongs to a domain that's >SH> properly handled by the SMTP server then you aren't relaying (since you are >SH> a legitimate domain user) so the mails should go through. And most smtp servers that

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: > Chris Dewin wrote: > >>Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my >>website. >> >>s = smtplib.SMTP("server") >>s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) >> >>I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable >>of type list

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Chris Dewin wrote: > Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my > website. > > s = smtplib.SMTP("server") > s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) > > I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable > of type list. > > Suppose the list c

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Daniel Dittmar wrote: > Chris Dewin wrote: > >> Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from >> my website. >> >> s = smtplib.SMTP("server") >> s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) >> >> I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable >> of t

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 20/09/05, Daniel Dittmar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chris Dewin wrote: > > Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my > > website. > > > > s = smtplib.SMTP("server") > > s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) > > > > Not really an answer to your question, bu

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Chris Dewin wrote: > Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my > website. > > s = smtplib.SMTP("server") > s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) > > I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable > of type list. > > Suppose the list c

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 20/09/05, Chris Dewin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > s = smtplib.SMTP("server") > s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) > > I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable > of type list. > > Suppose the list contains well over 100 emails. Would that create some >

Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Dewin
Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP("server") s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list contains well over 100 emails. Would tha