Do you mean a cron job? Or is it a separate service? I was intending
to make it a service, however I wanted to try this out to see if it
would work. I know for a fact that my mail server is functioning. I
have an old app written in python that does an SMTP-based mailing
using mail.server 127.0.0.1. I tried that with web2py but it didn't
work.
On Feb 3, 10:17 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> You need a background process and database queue of tasks for this to
> work well.
>
> On Feb 3, 8:50 pm, weheh <richard_gor...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I tried the mail.settings.server='localhost:25' but still no results.
>
> > As for Russel's comment, ultimately I intend to loop on a db of
> > possibly thousands of users. I intend to put some pause between user
> > emails in order to not trip spam filters. Do you anticipate a problem
> > from that configuration?
>
> > As for the for loop in my test case, it's only looking to email to me,
> > for the time being (hence the if not me: continue statement). Now, the
> > message.html file is under /web2py/applications/myapp/views/admin/
> > message.html. Is that the correct place to put it?
>
> > On Feb 3, 10:36 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?- Hide quoted text -
>
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