There is currently a poposal to make MailHost transactional, so you can be
sure that you sent the mail. However, when you have multiple recipients,
that doesn't solve the problem, because then you actually get half done
transactions.
Smtplib.SMTP.sendmail is nice enough to send back a list of
.
Andreas
- Original Message -
From: Lennart Regebro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 06:34
Subject: [Zope-dev] What to do when one mail recipient fails out of several?
There is currently a poposal to make MailHost transactional, so you can be
sure
]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] What to do when one mail recipient fails out of
several?
This approach makes no sense. Email uses the store-and-forward principle.
This means your local mailserver could accept the delivery but it can
never
Regebro
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 7:38 AM
To: Andreas Jung; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] What to do when one mail recipient fails out of
several?
Hmm, thats true... But in this case it doesn't accept it for delivery, and
the sender doesn't get to know that either.
I
From: Trevor Toenjes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I like the idea of having this capability.
Having the option to integrate it into sendmail or as a standalone
scrubber
would be ideal. Could this become a product?
Uhm, no, I don't think so. This is more a question of weather to add an
option to make
Apparently _some_ of this is possible. A couple of weeks ago, I was
facing a similar situation, and found a site on the web that would do
validation of email addresses by (IIRC) sending a mailto header to the
mail domain and looking at the response. It did not work for all
domains, notably
