logging SMTPhandler Error

Aahz aahz at pythoncraft.com
Sun Aug 23 18:44:01 EDT 2009


In article <mailman.290.1251065005.2854.python-list at python.org>,
Dennis Lee Bieber  <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>On 23 Aug 2009 06:14:00 -0700, aahz at pythoncraft.com (Aahz) declaimed the
>following in gmane.comp.python.general:
>>
>> Slightly expanded: most mail servers accept connections from any other
>> mail server for addresses that are hosted by them.  The MX address for a
>> domain tells you what mail server hosts that address.  By connecting
>> directly to the MX, your script is essentially acting as a mail server
>> itself.
>
>	But is not possible if one's ISP blocks pass-through SMTP
>connections.

Correct, but the OP said that zir ISP did not have a mailserver; AFAIK
all ISPs that block SMTP have their own mailserver that you can point at
instead.
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