Password, trust and user notification

[placid]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:44:14 +1100, "Aidan Steele" <aidan at aidans.org>
> declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>
> > While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread their
> > original question. They want to send email *from* the Gmail account *to* the
> > work account. I suggested that he use Gmail's SMTP server to send the email.
> >
> 	The most confusing thing is that is sounds very much like they want
> to use the /recipient's/ Gmail account to send email to the
> /recipient's/ work email account -- rather than connecting directly to
> the recipient's work account mail server. (Of course, it may be that
> their own ISP blocks pass-through SMTP -- that's a different matter) --


Ok, everyone now forget that i even asked about connecting to Gmail and
sending an email back to the work email, for some reason you guys are
not answering my question.

Is there any other way (other than email's !) to notify a user of
events within a script?

Thanks for all the help.
Cheers