email questions

[Carsten Haese]

On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 13:49, Scott Frankel wrote:
> Seems I'm still having issues with syntax.
> 
>  From what I can tell from my mail client, my outgoing mail server  
> name is either
> 	
> 	mail.<ispname>.net

This is it.

> or
> 	mail.<ispname>.net:<myUsername>@<myDomain>.com

Not this.

> The former yields the same socket error on connect() that I reported  
> earlier.

Then you're doing something wrong. The line

s = smtplib.SMTP("mail.ispname.net") instantiates an SMTP instance and
connects it. Are you doing s.connect() afterwards? If yes, don't do
that, it'll try to connect to the local host, which is not an smtp
server.

If you want to separate instantiation and connection, do this:

s = smtplib.SMTP()
s.connect("mail.ispname.net")

-Carsten