On 13 Dec 2006 15:45:09 -0800, <b class="gmail_sendername">placid</b> <<a href="mailto:Bulkan@gmail.com">Bulkan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Gabriel Genellina wrote:<br><snip><br><br>> You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him<br>> an email!<br>> And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be
<br>> fine.<br><br>Yes you dont need a password to receive email, but to access Gmail and<br>send an email you do. Yes you do need the Gmail library to access Gmail<br>because the script will run on a computer that doesnt have a smtp
<br>server.<br><br>Is there other way's of notifying the user?<br><br><br>Cheers<br><br>--<br><a href="http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list">http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list</a></blockquote>
<div><br><br>What Gabriel said was correct. You can use smtplib to connect to Gmail's SMTP server as the library supports SSL/TLS required by Gmail (see here: <a href="http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&topic=1556">
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287&topic=1556</a>)<br><br>You do not need a local SMTP server to use smtplib, just use the values found in that provided URL. Hope this helps,<br><br>Aidan Steele.
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