Attempting to use popen with mailx
Steve Holden
steve at holdenweb.com
Thu Sep 1 13:05:37 EDT 2005
caseydemail-python at yahoo.com wrote:
> I am trying to drive mailx using popen.
>
> Here is what I am trying to do:
>
> a=popen('mailx -s "test" 1234 at abc.com','w')
> print a>>, "This is a test"
> print a>>, "."
> a.flush()
>
> The email never sends, and I have to kill the
> processes. I am new to python, so I am sure I am
> doing something wrong.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks!
>
Does it help to add
a.close()
to the end of the code?
regards
Steve
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