sendmail library ?!
Cameron Simpson
cs at zip.com.au
Wed Nov 13 02:17:46 EST 2013
On 13Nov2013 05:52, Tamer Higazi <th982a at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am looking for a python library that does mailing directly through
> "sendmail".
> When I look into the docs, I see only an "smtlip" library but nothing
> that could serve with sendmail or postfix.
Use the subprocess module. Pipe to:
/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi addr1 addr2 ...
If the exit code is 0, mail dispatched.
This is a trivial function; you don't need a library for this.
Both "sendmail" and "postfix" (and "qmail" et al) provide a "sendmail"
executable for exactly this purpose.
The smtplib is for making arbitrary SMTP operations, thus a whole
module. Sendmail does all that for you, you only need to deliver
the message to it and ensure it was accepted.
Cheers,
--
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>
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