sending emails using python

[Tim Williams]

On 07/09/06, Hari Sekhon <hpsekhon at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>  Grant Edwards wrote:
>  On 2006-09-07, Sybren Stuvel
> <sybrenUSE at YOURthirdtower.com.imagination> wrote:
>
>
>  Tim Williams enlightened us with:
>
>
>  Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar
> POP3/IMAP mail client?
>
>  Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?
>
>  I would, but I don't use exchange server. :)
>
> The one exchange server I used in the past didn't accept SMTP
> mail.
>
>
>  errr, I used to admin Exchange, if it does accept SMTP then how could it
> function as a live mail server?

Did you mean *doesn't accept*  ??

There are a couple of possibilities at least,   of the top of my head:

* The IMC / IMS  (smtp connector) is located on a different server
within its Exchange organisation,  or a DMZ'ed exchange server that is
only used for SMTP.

* The server doesn't accept SMTP from local IP ranges,  only from
external (ie inbound email)

Outlook / Exchange clients use MAPI,  internal SMTP is only a
requirement if you have non-MAPI clients sending email through the
server.

HTH :)