sending emails using python

[sridhar]

Brendon Towle wrote:
> On Sep 7, 2006, at 3:50 AM, "sridhar"
> <ramasridhar.kasturi at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>
> > iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
> > with that can i send an email using python?
> >
> > if iam using the following code iam getting error
> >
> >
> > fromAddress = 'sridhar_kasturi at satyam.com'
> > toAddress = 'sridhar_kasturi at satyam.com'
> > msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of the message."
> > import smtplib
> > server = smtplib.SMTP("hstmsg002",25)
> > server.sendmail(fromAddress, toAddress, msg)
> >
> > error:
> >
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File
> > "C:\sridhar\Beginning_Python\Beginning_Python\Chapter16\tryitout
> > \InitialMailExample.py",
> > line 5, in ?
> >     server = smtplib.SMTP("hstmsg002",25)
> >   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
> >     (code, msg) = self.connect(host, port)
> >   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect
> >     (code, msg) = self.getreply()
> >   File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 351, in getreply
> >     raise SMTPServerDisconnected("Connection unexpectedly closed")
> > SMTPServerDisconnected: Connection unexpectedly closed
> >
>
> I saw a similar error when I was not following the server's
> authentication protocol -- either failing to authenticate when it
> wanted it, or authenticating when it didn't want it. Here's the code
> I use -- tested on both an Exchange server and on Comcast's SMTP
> servers. It assumes some globals (in all caps) which you need to set
> first.
>
> def emailGivenString(host=SMTP_HOST, fromAddr=FROM_ADDR,
>                       toAddr=TO_ADDR, subject='', body='', auth=False):
>      server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
>      if auth:
>          server.login('username', 'password')
>      outMessage = 'From: %s\rTo: %s\rSubject: %s\r%s' %
>                   (FROM_HEADER, TO_HEADER, subject, body)
>      server.sendmail(fromAddr, toAddr, outMessage)
>
> If this doesn't work, I second the previous suggestion of talking to
> the server admin.
>
> B.
>
> --
> Brendon Towle, Ph.D.   <Brendon at BrendonTowle.com>  +1-412-362-1530
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> Therefore,
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well, this type of authentication might work.Because the same process
of sending mail with authentication worked when i used java mail
application so iam confident of the same thing works in python also.