if the smtp from gmail shows that the email has been sent, there's nothing web2py can do. you can specify a bounce address and check it at a later time to see if the mail has been correctly delivered, but there's no way around it .
On Thursday, May 28, 2015 at 7:16:55 AM UTC+2, Lasya Venneti wrote: > > So I made a small app that sends emails from web2py, connected to the > gmail smtp server. The problem here is that it always gives me a success > message! > Even when the email-id is invalid. I have tested the bounce back feature > of gmail by sending mails from gmail to invalid email ids to which gmail > says 'Your message has been sent', but on going to the sent folder gives > the mailer daemon with a time lag(this differs for different mailing > services). > > > I think the mail.send() feature of web2py is unable to capture that and > takes the 'Your message has been sent' as confirmation. How can one capture > mails that haven't been sent using web2py? > > > if mail.send(session.email,subject=session.subject,message= session.message): > response.flash = 'email sent sucessfully.'else: > response.flash = 'fail to send email sorry! > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
