reg mail sending without smtp module

praba kar prabapython at yahoo.co.in
Thu May 12 06:32:02 EDT 2005


Dear All,

       From this below answer I got clear
idea for mail sending Module. I am expecting
this kind of answer .   Thank you
for your immediate response.

--- Mike Meyer <mwm at mired.org> wrote:
> praba kar <prabapython at yahoo.co.in> writes:
> > In Php we can build a Mail Message by
> > Mail_mime class and send this message by
> > Mail::Factory's class send Method. Here Php
> > doesn't use any smtp modules. Like that
> > In Python I used email.Message class to
> > build Mail Message and Now I am searching
> > modules to send this message as mail.
> 
> Python isn't PHP. In python, the standard way to
> send a message is
> with the smtp module. If you do an "import this" in
> a python
> interpreter, it will tell you (among other things)
> "There should be
> one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do
> it." The smtp module
> is that way. Since smtp is also how mail is sent
> around the internet,
> this makes a lot of sense.
> 
> Now, the PHP mail command uses the system's sendmail
> binary (at least
> on Unix). You can do that by hand using the
> subprocess module in 2.4,
> or os.system or os.popen or something similar on
> earlier versions of
> Python. All this really does is asks sendmail to put
> a message in the
> queue from the command line, rather than via the
> smtp port. It's
> probably slower than talking to the already running
> smtp daemon.
> 
> On Windows, the PHP mail command connects to an smtp
> server - which is
> exactly what smtplib does.
> 
>         <mike
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