In article <mailman.290.1251065005.2854.python-l...@python.org>, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: >On 23 Aug 2009 06:14:00 -0700, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) declaimed the >following in gmane.comp.python.general: >> >> Slightly expanded: most mail servers accept connections from any other >> mail server for addresses that are hosted by them. The MX address for a >> domain tells you what mail server hosts that address. By connecting >> directly to the MX, your script is essentially acting as a mail server >> itself. > > But is not possible if one's ISP blocks pass-through SMTP >connections.
Correct, but the OP said that zir ISP did not have a mailserver; AFAIK all ISPs that block SMTP have their own mailserver that you can point at instead. -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "I support family values -- Addams family values" --www.nancybuttons.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
