Using pythons smtp server

[Vincent Davis]

>
> "You don't send mail using an SMTP server.  You receive mail using an
> SMTP server.
> ​"​
>

Um maybe, I guess it is a matter of perspective.

Let me rephrase my question. ​​I want to send an email using python but do
not want to use an external service. Does python have the ability to send
emails without installing additional software or using an external
server/service?
Maybe I am wrong, I thought examples like s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
​​ are using a local(outside of python) smtp server, like postfix.




Vincent Davis
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On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>wrote:

> On 2013-12-13, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
>
> > I have an app that generates a file one a day and would like to email it
> > using pythons SMTP server.
>
> You don't send mail using an SMTP server.  You receive mail using an
> SMTP server.
>
> > http://docs.python.org/2/library/smtpd.html#smtpd.SMTPServer
> > The documentation is kinda sparse and I cant seem to find any good
> examples.
> >
> > Basically what I want to do; when my app runs it would initiate a SMTP
> > server, send the attachment and shutdown the SMTP after.
>
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
> From: Grant Edwards <invalid at invalid.invalid>
> Subject: Re: Using pythons smtp server
> References: <mailman.4046.1386908855.18130.python-list at python.org>
> Followup-To:
>
> On 2013-12-13, Vincent Davis <vincent at vincentdavis.net> wrote:
>
> > I have an app that generates a file one a day and would like to email
> > it using pythons SMTP server.
>
> You don't send mail using an SMTP server.  You receive mail using an
> SMTP server.  You send mail using an SMTP client.
>
> > http://docs.python.org/2/library/smtpd.html#smtpd.SMTPServer
> > The documentation is kinda sparse and I cant seem to find any good
> examples.
> >
> > Basically what I want to do; when my app runs it would initiate a SMTP
> > server, send the attachment and shutdown the SMTP after.
>
> https://www.google.com/search?q=python+send+email+smtp
>
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