Hi Massimo, thanks for your reply. I connected without problems using telnet on port 25
>telnet mydomain.com 25 Connected to mydomain.com. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mydomain.com ESMTP Postfix (Ubuntu) EHLO mydomain.com 250-mydomain.com 250-PIPELINING 250-SIZE 10240000 250-ETRN 250-STARTTLS 250-AUTH CRAM-MD5 DIGEST-MD5 LOGIN PLAIN 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES 250-8BITMIME 250 DSN on the other hand, the username is the same I use to send an email from thunderbird. kind regards, Bernardo On 1 dic, 16:49, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote: > try telnet mail.mydomain.com 25 and see if it is accepting remote > connections (by defau postfix does not). > > Also I think > > mail.settings.login = '[email protected]:mypass' > > should be > > mail.settings.login = 'berna...:mypass' > > On Dec 1, 5:44 am, Bernardo <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Dear all, > > > I don't know if it is exactly a web2py issue or not. The fact is that > > I have a remote mail server, listening in port 25. It uses a self > > created certificate to allow connections from the outside (i.e. for > > thunderbird, you must accept that certificate in order to send mails). > > The problem is that when I try to send an email: > > > mail.send(to='[email protected]',subject='Hello world > > subject',message='Hello world text') > > > but nothing happens. Not a single messange printed on python console. > > And nothing shown in postfix log > > > The lines in db.py are: > > mail.settings.server = 'mail.mydomain.com:25' > > mail.settings.sender = '[email protected]' # your email > > mail.settings.login = '[email protected]:mypass' # your > > credentials or None > > mail.settings.cipher_type = 'x509' > > mail.settings.x509_sign_keyfile = 'url_to_postfix.key' > > mail.settings.x509_sign_certfile = 'url_to_postfix.cert' > > > Does anyone can figure out what is wrong with all of this? > > > thanks a lot for your time, > > Bernardo

