SMTP with Python 1.6
Grant Edwards
ge at nowhere.none
Mon Jun 26 17:05:28 EDT 2000
In article <8j80qa$5d0c$1 at nntp6.u.washington.edu>, Donn Cave wrote:
>Quoth ge at nowhere.none (Grant Edwards):
>>> 'Localhost' will not work. You have to make this the address of
>>> a valid SMTP-server.
>>
>> Gosh, on all my computers, "localhost" is the address of a
>> valid SMTP-server. Are your computers all broken?
>
>Some choice, broken vs. broken into.
The only SMTP server I run on a machine accessible to the
outside world is qmail. I am quite confident that it is not a
point of vulnerability.
>SMTP service is only required for hosts that accept or redistribute mail.
>If you know "localhost" is going to work, that's fine, but in the general
>case it's liable not to, and sys-admin isn't even likely to be very
>sympathetic.
I guess I'm spoiled. I exped all of my computers to be willing
to accept e-mail. Most of them won't relay incoming SMTP
requests, but that's by choice.
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