help with sending mail in Program
Ivan Shevanski
darkpaladin79 at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 9 12:33:47 EDT 2005
>
>#!/usr/local/bin/python
>
>''' Send mail to me '''
>
>from smtplib import SMTP
>
>def sendToMe(subject, body):
> me = '"Ivan Shevanski" <mcskittles117 at hotmail.com>'
> send(me, me, subject, body)
>
>
>def send(frm, to, subject, body):
> s = SMTP()
>#///On or off for test\\\ #s.set_debuglevel(1)
> s.connect('mail.hotmail.com',)
> s.ehlo('69.137.27.32') # IP address of my computer, I don't
>
>remember why I needed this
> msg = '''From: %s
>Subject: %s
>To: %s
>
>%s
>''' % (frm, subject, to, body)
>
> s.sendmail(frm, to, msg)
>
> s.sendmail(frm, [to], msg)
>
> s.quit()
>
>
>if __name__ == '__main__':
> sendToMe('test', 'test')
>
>
>It says it sends it but I get nothing in my inbox or anywhere! This is
>really frustrating me.
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>
>[tim williams]> No it definitely works, but Hotmail will blackhole your
>constructed email as it is obviously fake. It has no headers, dates,
>msg-id etc.
>
>[tim williams]> View the source of a real email in your mail client,
>then
>cut & paste the whole thing into your message variable like this
>
> msg = ''' <msg source here> '''
>
>[tim williams]> you should remove the " % (frm, subject, to, body) " at
>the end of the msg string
>
>[tim williams]> for correctness, you also need an " s.rset() " in
>between
>each " s.sendmail " (but the script does work in its current form)
>
>[tim williams]> HTH :)
>
>
Im good with everything except viewing the source. . .Do you mean the html
source? Because I use hotmail, and not outlook or thunderbird or something
like that. Sorry, i'm a noob.
-Ivan
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