Python for email?

[Kyler Laird]

claird at lairds.com (Cameron Laird) writes:

>smtplib presents a few other, even more marginal issues.  If an
>installed MTA enforces institutional standards (disclaimers, archi-
>ving, ...), smtplib is likely to subvert those.

How so?

The example for smtplib given here
	http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/SMTP-example.html
appears to relay mail through "localhost".  That will typically be
equivalent to using the "installed MTA", right?

--kyler