SMTP with Python 1.6

[Matthias Huening]

> Gosh, on all my computers, "localhost" is the address of a valid
> SMTP-server.  Are your computers all broken?
>

Because of this line in Colin's script:

> #!c:\python\python.exe

I assumed that he is on a Windows-computer. And that makes it unlikely that
localhost is a SMTP-server. (No, I am not going to discuss the question
whether Windows computers are broken by definition...)

Matthias