[Python-bugs-list] [ python-Bugs-523195 ] SMTPLIB does not support "

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Bugs item #523195, was opened at 2002-02-26 15:30
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Category: Python Library
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul F. Dubois (dubois)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: SMTPLIB does not support "

Initial Comment:
I was trying to use smtplib to send mail through a
server.  This script had worked before but I had to
move it to a new environment. I could not connect to
the machine "smtp.something" (name changed to protect
the innocent). I wrote to a guru person who told me:

"The name smtp.something has an MX record in our
external DNS that should cause the email to go first
through our incoming mail gateways... if you configured
your software with smtp.something and it didn't work,
that's saying that it does not use the MX record (which
it should...).  In that case you can point directly to
the incoming mail gateway, smtp-in.something"

and indeed this change made it work. I don't know
anything about "MX records" but evidently smtplib
doesn't support them and somebody thinks it should.

I'm a fish out of water on this and don't know anything
I didn't just say.



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