sending emails using python

[Brendon Towle]

On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:50 AM, "sridhar"  
<ramasridhar.kasturi at gmail.com>wrote:


> 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."
> import smtplib
> server = smtplib.SMTP("hstmsg002",25)
> server.sendmail(fromAddress, toAddress, msg)
>
> error:
>
> 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
>

I saw a similar error when I was not following the server's  
authentication protocol -- either failing to authenticate when it  
wanted it, or authenticating when it didn't want it. Here's the code  
I use -- tested on both an Exchange server and on Comcast's SMTP  
servers. It assumes some globals (in all caps) which you need to set  
first.

def emailGivenString(host=SMTP_HOST, fromAddr=FROM_ADDR,
                      toAddr=TO_ADDR, subject='', body='', auth=False):
     server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
     if auth:
         server.login('username', 'password')
     outMessage = 'From: %s\rTo: %s\rSubject: %s\r%s' %
                  (FROM_HEADER, TO_HEADER, subject, body)
     server.sendmail(fromAddr, toAddr, outMessage)

If this doesn't work, I second the previous suggestion of talking to  
the server admin.

B.

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