Password, trust and user notification

Aidan Steele aidan at aidans.org
Wed Dec 13 19:23:28 EST 2006


On 13 Dec 2006 15:45:09 -0800, placid <Bulkan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Gabriel Genellina wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him
> > an email!
> > And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be
> > fine.
>
> Yes you dont need a password to receive email, but to access Gmail and
> send an email you do. Yes you do need the Gmail library to access Gmail
> because the script will run on a computer that doesnt have a smtp
> server.
>
> Is there other way's of notifying the user?
>
>
> Cheers
>
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What Gabriel said was correct.  You can use smtplib to connect to Gmail's
SMTP server as the library supports SSL/TLS required by Gmail (see here:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&topic=1556)

You do not need a local SMTP server to use smtplib, just use the values
found in that provided URL. Hope this helps,

Aidan Steele.
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