sending gmail with smtplib from behind a proxy
Bjorn
bjornjobb at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 06:07:21 EST 2009
Hi, I tried the script below to send mail by gmail from python using
smptlib. I got the script here (http://kutuma.blogspot.com/2007/08/
sending-emails-via-gmail-with-python.html)
It works fine from home, but at work not. I think it is because I am
behind a http or a socks proxy server at work. Can I adapt this script
to work from behind the http or socks proxy? I couldnt understand from
the smtplib if I can specify this somehow?
Sincerely,
bjorn johansson
----Script---------
#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os
gmail_user = "your_email at gmail.com"
gmail_pwd = "your_password"
def mail(to, subject, text, attach):
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = gmail_user
msg['To'] = to
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg.attach(MIMEText(text))
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
Encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition',
'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(attach))
msg.attach(part)
mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.starttls()
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
mailServer.sendmail(gmail_user, to, msg.as_string())
# Should be mailServer.quit(), but that crashes...
mailServer.close()
mail("some.person at some.address.com",
"Hello from python!",
"This is a email sent with python",
"my_picture.jpg")
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