email notifier question ??

[Jorgen Grahn]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:48:04 -0800, Chris Rebert <clp at rebertia.com> wrote:
> 2008/11/13 yoma <yomatatata at gmail.com>:
>> hi guys!
>>    I want to use python send an email to acceptor.  And i hope to
>> receive  the message that the acceptor has read my email.
>>
>> So how to realize that get the message?
>
> To send an email using Python, you'll need to use the `smtplib`
> module: http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html#module-smtplib

Well, on Unix it's more correct (and easier) to pipe the mail into
/usr/lib/sendmail. Saves you the trouble of configuring SMTP for every
mail-enabled application, and is more robust (buffer the mail if the
mail relay server is down, or if IP is down; bounce undeliverable
messages and so on -- all those robustness features of Internet mail).

(I'm assuming here that "user-friendly" Linux distributions haven't
broken this old convention. I know Debian still insists on configuring
it, but of course the administator can break it on purpose.)

It would be nice with a Python module which encapsulated "send a mail"
in the best possible way for the current machine. Maybe there are even
easy ways to do it on Windows.

/Jorgen

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