[Tutor] need to automate connection

[Wolfram Kraus]

Payal Rathod wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 06:59:29PM +1200, Liam Clarke wrote:
> 
>>Hi Payal,
>>
>>I see you're connecting to an smtp server Any particular reason yoou
>>can't use smtplib?
>>http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-smtplib.html
> 
> 
> Because I don't know it exists :)
> 
> But I don't want to send any mail. I just want to establish a connection 
> send MAIL TO: and RCPT TO: and exit.
> Any ideas with that? With warm regards,
> -Payal

What about telnetlib? ;-)

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-telnetlib.html

HTH,
Wolfram