GAE has "magic" around sending emails. Someone extended the Mail() class in web2py to work with this magic. basically you don't need passwords to send from a GAE application if you are sending mail as one of the administrators. your configuration for mail should look like:
mail=Mail() # mailer mail.settings.server='gae' # your SMTP server mail.settings.sender='[email protected]' # your email auth.settings.mailer=mail # for user email verification and it will send mail. no password required. if a user is logged in via google accounts you can also send mail "from" that user. i'm using that for a support form - it sends mail to my support address from the logged in user. no passwords, it just works. pretty nifty, eh? good luck, cfh On May 23, 9:51 am, mattynoce <[email protected]> wrote: > hi, i have a question about sending emails. i'm running my program on > google app engine, and due to google's rules i need to have an > administrator as the "from" for all my emails. so i created an > account, let's call it "[email protected]," figuring that would > be the "from" for all my emails for now. > > to send emails, [email protected] needs to be an administrator > of the application on gae, so i did that. but i'm in a situation where > i'm sharing code with other developers i need to work with but don't > want to give them admin access. > > in db.py, i have the following lines: > mail.settings.sender='[email protected]' > mail.settings.login='[email protected]:testPassword' > > but by giving web2py my email password, i'm actually giving other > developers full administrative access to my application on gae. > > i recognize this isn't a web2py "problem," but it's an issue i need to > solve. does anyone have any ideas of how to get around this? > > thanks, > > matt
