I work at a training center and I would like to use Python to generate a number of certificates and then e-mail them. The certificates are a problem for another day - right now I just want to figure out how to send an e-mail.
I confess I don't know much about the protocol(s) for e-mail. In PHP using CodeIgniter, the same task was amazingly easy. I think this is a bit harder because I'm not executing code on a remote machine that has its own SMTP server. According to (http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Python/ Python-Email-Libraries-SMTP-and-Email-Parsing/), I need to use the SMTP object found in the smtplib module to initiate a connection to a server before I can send. I want to use Gmail, but on the following input it stalls and then raises smtplib.SMTPServerDisconnected: server = SMTP("smtp.gmail.com") I also pinged smtp.gmail.com and tried it with the dotted quad IP as a string. Am I on the right track? Is this a problem with gmail, or have I gotten an assumption wrong? Here's a thought: Could I use SMTPServer (http://docs.python.org/lib/ node620.html) to obviate the need to have anything to do with Gmail? What would be the limitations on that? Could I successfully do this and wrap the whole thing up in a black box? What modules would I need? Thanks. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
