python create mail

[Tim Roberts]

anyab5 at gmail.com wrote:

>hey I need help in sending email,
>
>It seems that while using  this set of commands
>
>from smtplib import SMTP
>
> s = SMTP()
> s.set_debuglevel(1)
> s.connect('outmail.huji.ac.il')
>
>I should be able to get a connection but what I get is this error
>
>T:\Anya\work>mail1.py
>connect: ('outmail.huji.ac.il', 25)
>connect: ('outmail.huji.ac.il', 25)
>connect fail: ('outmail.huji.ac.il', 25)
>Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 303, in connect
>    raise socket.error, msg
>socket.error: (10053, 'Software caused connection abort')
>
>Does any one have a clue ?


C:\Dev>python
Python 2.4.1 (#65, Mar 30 2005, 09:13:57) [MSC v.1310 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import smtplib
>>> s = smtplib.SMTP()
>>> s.set_debuglevel(1)
>>> s.connect('outmail.huji.ac.il')
connect: ('outmail.huji.ac.il', 25)
connect: ('outmail.huji.ac.il', 25)
reply: '220 mail3.cc.huji.ac.il ESMTP Postfix\r\n'
reply: retcode (220); Msg: mail3.cc.huji.ac.il ESMTP Postfix
connect: mail3.cc.huji.ac.il ESMTP Postfix
(220, 'mail3.cc.huji.ac.il ESMTP Postfix')
>>> ^Z

C:\Dev>

It's possible they simply had a temporary outage, assuming that you aren't
sending this from some known spammer IP address.
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