Walter, Marc, Thanks for your helpful suggestions & super quick replies.
As a noobie, i often run into brick walls, thinking something(problem i am stuck at) is not possible to do in python. I love struggling against that problem & figuring a way out. I have posted to the tutor mailing list in the past & the community here has always been amazingly welcoming & super helpful, so as a n00b, i was just a little taken aback &surprised at Emil's not particularly helpful , yet completely accurate response :) Marc, your 3rd point, > you could establish a VPN tunnel to some server outside of the > university's network and send from port 587 on THAT machine. Complicated, > weird, and not horribly secure. But doable. Could you point me to a good link/resource on how to do this ? Walter, you suggested writing a web service running somewhere else (e.g. Google Apps, AWS, etc) which i could request from my python code, which in turn would do the emailing. Can you point me to any good links/example code which might explain writing a simple SOAP/ReST web service using port80(http) or preferably, 443(https). I know nothing about web services, but could this web service essentially be the python email code, i mentioned in my original post, if i run it on Google App Engine ? Thanks a ton, Best, ashish On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:29 AM, Walter Prins <wpr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Ashish, > > On 11 September 2012 22:44, ashish makani <ashish.mak...@gmail.com> wrote: > > These emails are automated diagnostic emails sent to a group of a few > > admins, so we get notified when a python heartbeat script, detects a > failure > > in things like n/w connectivity, router status, etc. > > We dont use university email, we use gmail. > > > > Emile, > > Please don't presume people's intentions (that we are sending spam) & > judge > > people without knowing anything about them. > > We are a tiny startup trying to connect rural communities using voice & > ivr > > systems - http://gramvaani.org/ > > OK, well I'm sure you can see how an apparent newbie asking to get out > of a university network without any explanation can be seem um, > suspect, so I think Emile's response was reasonable. I must further > note that I can't actually see how/where your request actually fits > under the projects listed by that site. So, colour me still a bit > sceptical, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. > > So then, given that you can only get out on port 80, your only real > option the way I see it is to write a small web service, maybe a SOAP > or preferably ReST service, to run on e.g. Google APP engine that will > do the emailing for you. Of course, you'll have to consider whether > to implement some security yourself if you use port 80 as the data > going over the wire will be sent unencrypted. It may not be a problem > but then again it may. Note, alternatively you can perhaps also use > https (port 443), if that's also open as that will give you end-to-end > encryption for free. (But I have no idea and suspect that this may > also introduce a boatload of other complications...) > > Walter > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
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