email questions

[Scott Frankel]

Seems I'm still having issues with syntax.

 From what I can tell from my mail client, my outgoing mail server  
name is either
	
	mail.<ispname>.net
or
	mail.<ispname>.net:<myUsername>@<myDomain>.com

The former yields the same socket error on connect() that I reported  
earlier.  The latter yields a "nonnumeric port" error upon  
instantiation.  Instantiating with the port number,

	s = smtplib.SMTP("mail.<ispname>.net:<myUsername>@<myDomain>.com",  
portNum)

yields the following error:

	socket.gaierror: (7, 'No address associated with nodename')


Suggestions?

Thanks again
Scott




On Feb 8, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Carsten Haese wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-02-08 at 12:34, Scott Frankel wrote:
>> I'm looking for a way to send a simple, plain text email message
>> using Python.  My initial attempts are failing with the following  
>> error:
>>
>> 	socket.error: (61, 'Connection refused')
>>
>> Does this imply that I do not have the machine's smtp server
>> running?
>
> Yes.
>
>>   (I don't; and I'd like to avoid setting it up.)
>
> You don't have to set up an smtp server to use smtplib. You should be
> able to use your ISP's outgoing mail server, as in
>
> s = smtplib.SMTP("<ISP's mail server name goes here>")
>
> HTH,
>
> Carsten.
>
>
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