Re: [Evolution] Gmail SMTP Problems

[Gideon N. Guillen]

On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:30:16 -0500, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > btw, based on the discussions here, it seems that gmail _does_ offer the
> > ability for mail-users to actually pop/imap their mails to the user's
> > respective clients??
> >
> > True or am I mistaken? I always thought it's web-based only like
> > Yahoo/Hotmail.
>
> I agree--please post your script!  =:)  Also, it looks like gmail only offers
> POP right now, correct?  Is IMAP coming, does anyone know?

Well, Gmail also offers SMTP to POP users. :D

If you're using Evolution 2.0.x, you probably don't need this script
because according to another poster, it works on 2.0.x.

Anyway, I'm posting the SMTP proxy script that I used. The user name
and password for Gmail's SMTP is hard coded in the script though.


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Gideon N. Guillen
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#!/bin/env python

import smtpd, smtplib, asyncore

class GmailSMTPProxy(smtpd.SMTPServer):
    def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data):
        server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587)
        # server.set_debuglevel(1)
        server.ehlo()
        server.starttls()
        server.ehlo()
        server.login('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', 'password')
        server.sendmail(mailfrom, rcpttos, data)
        server.quit()

if __name__ == '__main__':
    import __main__
    GmailSMTPProxy(('localhost',8025), None)
    try:
        asyncore.loop()
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pass