On Friday, August 12, 2011 8:51:33 AM UTC+2, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 08:07:09 -0700 (PDT), aspineux <aspi...@gmail.com> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > Hi I have written a tutorial about how to generate and send emails > > with python. > > Is that really such a difficult task? > > Okay, I didn't really use Python for the entire creation of the > message... But my first real Python program (using 1.4 or 1.5, whatever > was included in the first "Programming Python" disk, for AmigaOS) was a > rudimentary outgoing SMTPd which had to parse headers from message > files "queued" by an ARexx script from an Amiga version of ELM, then > handshake with the ISP SMTPd to relay the message onward. It took less > than a week after buying the book that I had this ARexx/Python hybrid > working -- and it worked better than either C-language programs I'd > downloaded (at that period of time, Amiga email programs ONLY read from > local spool and queued to local spool; separate programs had to be used > to read POP3 and send SMTP... My first SMTP utility presumed 1) direct > connection to destination address, 2) created an email file for each > address -- problem: if a destination did not have a receiving SMTPd [ie, > one needed to do an MX lookup instead] it would hang trying to send that > message, and never process others... The second program used ISP relay > -- but it only parsed the "TO:" header, and thereby failed to handshake > CC and BCC destinations) > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlf...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
Nice story bro... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
