Comments on: How to Send Email with Python http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/ Python Programming from the Frontlines Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:38:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Re Lima http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-22926 Re Lima Fri, 24 Sep 2010 21:00:00 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-22926 He is thinking about creating a program that does not require an external smtp server to relay the messages, but that handles relaying directly. I would be very interest in learning how to do the mx querying for this purpose. He is thinking about creating a program that does not require an external smtp server to relay the messages, but that handles relaying directly. I would be very interest in learning how to do the mx querying for this purpose.

]]> By: mbt http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-21282 mbt Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:50:00 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-21282 I love travelling so much that I often surfing on many journey forum to learn knowledge about trip, and I think this forum is the best, from where I got the newest information about journey. Here I want recommend some excellent websites http://www.mbt-outlet-store.com/mbt-men-shoes.html, There are many good products help you make a good journey. I love travelling so much that I often surfing on many journey forum to learn knowledge about trip, and I think this forum is the best, from where I got the newest information about journey. Here I want recommend some excellent websites http://www.mbt-outlet-store.com/mbt-men-shoes.html, There are many good products help you make a good journey.

]]> By: Mark http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20838 Mark Fri, 28 May 2010 19:59:17 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20838 I noticed that the Email message received does not have a subject while being displayed. Is there anyway to have subject line displayed? (so far subject is just in the same message body). I noticed that the Email message received does not have a subject while being displayed. Is there anyway to have subject line displayed? (so far subject is just in the same message body).

]]> By: driscollis http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20794 driscollis Tue, 18 May 2010 22:04:28 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20794 I know about MX records as well, but I'm not sure why you'd need to mess with those if all the smtplib wants is the host address, like <a href="http://mail.mydomain.com" rel="nofollow">mail.mydomain.com</a>. I've never had to provide MX record info to Thunderbird or Outlook either. Could you explain some more about what you mean? I don't mind updating the article or writing a second one with additional information if I think it's valuable.<br><br>Thanks,<br><br>- Mike I know about MX records as well, but I'm not sure why you'd need to mess with those if all the smtplib wants is the host address, like mail.mydomain.com. I've never had to provide MX record info to Thunderbird or Outlook either. Could you explain some more about what you mean? I don't mind updating the article or writing a second one with additional information if I think it's valuable.

Thanks,

- Mike

]]> By: Jim D http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20793 Jim D Tue, 18 May 2010 20:25:40 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20793 I'm disappointed that this article, as with the docs at <a href="http://python.org" rel="nofollow">python.org</a>, completely glosses over the need to do a DNS lookup for the MX records in order to find the HOST to which to make these SMTP connections.<br><br>As a long time sysadmin I know about MX records, now to look them up using 'dig' or even using the Python DNS module. However, many readers here won't. (Also there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do so from the Python standard libraries, one must either some some low level socket work, install the third party DNS module, or shell out (subprocess.Popen) and read the results back from some external tool such as 'dig' (and parse them, of course). I'm disappointed that this article, as with the docs at python.org, completely glosses over the need to do a DNS lookup for the MX records in order to find the HOST to which to make these SMTP connections.

As a long time sysadmin I know about MX records, now to look them up using 'dig' or even using the Python DNS module. However, many readers here won't. (Also there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do so from the Python standard libraries, one must either some some low level socket work, install the third party DNS module, or shell out (subprocess.Popen) and read the results back from some external tool such as 'dig' (and parse them, of course).

]]> By: driscollis http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20777 driscollis Sun, 16 May 2010 00:14:46 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20777 Thanks for the link.<br><br>- Mike Thanks for the link.

- Mike

]]> By: driscollis http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20776 driscollis Sun, 16 May 2010 00:13:27 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20776 Thanks for the hints. That could prove handy.<br><br>- Mike Thanks for the hints. That could prove handy.

- Mike

]]> By: speno http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20769 speno Sat, 15 May 2010 03:55:39 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20769 email = MIMEText(mesg)<br> email['To'] = to<br> email['Subject'] = subject<br> mail_args = [SENDMAIL, '-t', '-f', ENV_SENDER]<br> mail = subprocess.Popen(mail_args, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)<br> print >>mail.stdin, email<br> mail.stdin.close() email = MIMEText(mesg)
email['To'] = to
email['Subject'] = subject
mail_args = [SENDMAIL, '-t', '-f', ENV_SENDER]
mail = subprocess.Popen(mail_args, stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
print >>mail.stdin, email
mail.stdin.close()

]]> By: mtobis http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20767 mtobis Fri, 14 May 2010 21:05:34 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20767 Thanks! I've been looking for a clear explanation of how to do this for a while. Thanks! I've been looking for a clear explanation of how to do this for a while.

]]> By: Marius Gedminas http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2010/05/14/how-to-send-email-with-python/comment-page-1/#comment-20766 Marius Gedminas Fri, 14 May 2010 20:19:22 +0000 http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/?p=865#comment-20766 If you want to include non-ASCII characters in your emails, you'll need to jump through a few more hoops: <a href="http://mg.pov.lt/blog/unicode-emails-in-python.html" rel="nofollow">http://mg.pov.lt/blog/unicode-emails-in-python....</a> If you want to include non-ASCII characters in your emails, you'll need to jump through a few more hoops: http://mg.pov.lt/blog/unicode-emails-in-python….

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