Just curious...The code shows the mail.send routine in a loop and the
whole thing could take some time to run. Should there be some limit
to the number of records that can be thrown into such a loop? About
how many records before this sort of thing should be handed off to a
daemon?
On Feb 4, 4:36 am, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Can you try?
>
> mail.settings.server='localhost:25'
>
> On Feb 3, 12:02 am, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to get the email module to work. In my model I say:
>
> > #model
> > mail.settings.server='localhost' # your SMTP server
> > mail.settings.login=None # your credentials
> > mail.settings.sender='no-re...@foobar.com' # your email
>
> > #controller "admin.py"
> > def email_blast():
> > """Controller for sending email blasts to filtered user lists"""
> > # set up crud
> > crud.settings.create_onaccept=lambda form: send_email(form)
> > crud.settings.update_onaccept=lambda form: None
> > # build crud form
> > form = crud.update(db.email_blast,request.args(2),message=T('Blast
> > sent'))
> > # build record table
> > rows=crud.select(db.email_blast)
> > return dict(form=form,rows=rows)
>
> > def send_email(form):
> > """Function sends email to all users that match query"""
> > for user in db(db.auth_user.id>0).select():
> > if not user.email=='testa...@foobar.com': continue
> > context=dict(user=user)
> > #if form.vars.approved:
> > message = response.render('admin/message.html',context)
> > mail.send(to=
> > [user.email],subject=form.vars.subject,message=message)
>
> > Mine is the test email address (real address in actual code). But I'm
> > never getting any email.
>
> > My server is up and running OK and an old email program that I also
> > wrote that uses localhost is working fine.
>
> > Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
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