Mod_python and SMTP server

[David Fraser]

Nancy wrote:
> Hi,
>   Very useful suggestion! Now the problem is, suppose I use hotmail as
> my SMTP, who know what is the SMTP name of hotmail?
>   If I use another SMTP, I got an error:
>   error: (10061, 'Connection refused')
> 
>   Now, what should I do?
>   Thanks a lot.
> 
> Nancy

You're going to have trouble using hotmail as an SMTP server, as it 
doesn't support SMTP...

David


> 
> 
> Doug Holton <insert at spam.here> wrote in message news:<dPqdnbY665YvVWfd4p2dnA at comcast.com>...
> 
>>Nancy wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>  Is there any one knows, if I want to use mod_python to handle my
>>>html form, I must have a SMTP server on my PC(winxp pro)?
>>>  Where can I get a free SMTP server?
>>>
>>>  I cann't follow mod_python's manual example
>>>(http://www.svencoop.com/manual/mod/mod_python/tut-pub.html), why ...
>>
>>Right, the example assumes you are running on Linux or Mac OS X, which
>>run an SMTP server (like sendmail) by default.
>>
>>You could search for an STMP server for Windows (like blat or xmail), 
>>but that isn't necessary.
>>
>>You can change the SMTP_SERVER line in your program to use the same STMP 
>>server that your email uses.  Also, change WEBMASTER to your own email 
>>address.
>>If that server requires you to login before allowing you to send email, 
>>add this line to your script after "conn = smtplib.SMTP(SMTP_SERVER)":
>>conn.login(username, password)