[EuroPython] HELP Reaching all 2005 participants

[Michael Hudson]

"Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa at gmail.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> I got the email-list of last years attendees, and Jacobs offer to make
> a Python Script to email them all.
>
> That Python Script is the smaller part of this problem: since I
> outsourced all my email purposes to GMAIL, I do not have an SMTP where
> I can send via script.

You can send via gmail (smtp.gmail.com)!  But it has to be encrypted,
I think, I don't think Python's smtplib module supports that.

> I am preparing the text of the mailing, I can dot the mail script; can
> anybody provide an SMTP-server to run on?

I can give you an account on a machine capable of running the script;
catch me on IRC.

Cheers,
mwh

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