connect in SMTPlib

Mon Jul 16 09:21:49 EDT 2001

Look in the Vaults of Parnassus, and use timeoutsocket to handle such scket
timeouts in a more friendly way.

regards
 Steve

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"Rajkumar S." <raj2569 at yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.995224946.25425.python-list at python.org...
> Hi all,
>
> I am writing cgi program to send a mail of all the selection made by
> the user to admin. The from addr and to addr are fixed in the script.
> One of the probable error that I see is that of the SMTP server being
> down. Their are no exceptions defined for the connect(). So the script
> bombs when the connect fails and gives the 500 error.
>
> Can the script be made more robust esp when faced by a down SMTP
> server?
>
> raj
>
> #!/usr/local/bin/python
> import smtplib
> import string
> import cgi
>
> fromaddr = "xxx <xx at xx.com>"
> toaddrs  = "xxx <xx.com>"
>
> thankyou = '''Content-Type: text/html\n\n
> <html>
> <head> <title> Thank You!</title> </head>
> <body>
> Thank you !!
> </body>
> </html>'''
>
> error = '''Content-Type: text/html\n\n
>     <html>
>     <head> <title> We are sorry</title> </head>
>     <body>
>     We are extremely sorry that an error had occured while sending mail.
>     </body>'''
>
> form = cgi.FieldStorage()
> formkeys = form.keys()
>
> <snip>
> </snip>
>
> msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\r\n" % (fromaddr, toaddrs,
order))
> line = msg + line
>
> server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
>
> try:
>     server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, line)
> except smtplib.SMTPException:
>     print error
>     server.quit()
> server.quit()
> print thankyou
>
>