sending emails using python

[Sybren Stuvel]

sridhar enlightened us with:
> iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
> with that can i send an email using python?
>
> if iam using the following code iam getting error
>
>
> fromAddress = 'sridhar_kasturi at satyam.com'
> toAddress = 'sridhar_kasturi at satyam.com'
> msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of the message."
                       ^^^^

You need \r\n\r\n there. Line-ends in email messages should be DOS
line-ends.

> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File
> "C:\sridhar\Beginning_Python\Beginning_Python\Chapter16\tryitout\InitialMailExample.py",
> line 5, in ?
>     server = smtplib.SMTP("hstmsg002",25)
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
>     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect
>     (code, msg) = self.getreply()
>   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 351, in getreply
>     raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
> SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

Well that's useless. You could install a network sniffer
(http://www.ethereal.com/) and find out what's actually sent over the
network connection, and where things go wrong.

Sybren
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