Can't Get Email Interface Working

[Eric Price]

Good grief! And they call a 722-line program "simple"?! LOL!
I did what I need to do with a __one_line_shell_script__ LOL!
Naw, if I have to go through all that, I'll skip on python this time around, 
thank you very much!
Eric


>From: hlubenow <hlubenow2 at gmx.net>
>To: python-list at python.org
>Subject: Re: Can't Get Email Interface Working
>Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2007 17:33:38 +0200
>
>Eric Price wrote:
>
> > Hi;
> > I'm writing a script that includes an email function. So I went to the
> > cookbook and dug up this, and tweaked it just a bit to make it easier to
> > get it to work, but it throws an error:
> >
> >>>>def createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
> > ...     import MimeWriter, mimetools, cStringIO
> > ...     out = cStringIO.StringIO()
> > ... #   txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(msg)
> > ...     writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
> > ...     writer.addheader("From", sender)
> > ...     writer.addheader("To", recipient)
> > ...     writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
> > ...     writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
> > ...     writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
> > ...     writer.flushheaders()
> > ...     subpart = writer.nextpart()
> > ...     subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", 
>"quoted-printable")
> > ...     pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 
>'us-ascii')])
> > ...     mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
> > ...     txtin.close()
> > ...     subpart = writer.nextpart()
> > ...     subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", 
>"quoted-printable")
> > ...     pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
> > ...     mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
> > ...     htmlin.close()
> > ...     writer.lastpart()
> > ...     msg = "test"
> > ...     out.close()
> > ...     return msg
> > ...
> >>>># ---------------------------------------------------------------
> > ... def sendMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
> > ...     import smtplib
> > ...     message = createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text)
> > ...     server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
> > ...     server.sendmail(sender, recipient, message)
> > ...     server.quit()
> > ...
> >>>>if __name__=="__main__":
> > ...     sendMail("root at mail.example.com", "joe at yahoo.com", "Web Stie(s)
> > Down!!!", "", "text")
> > ...
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> >   File "<stdin>", line 4, in sendMail
> >   File "<stdin>", line 10, in createMail
> >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/MimeWriter.py", line 153, in
> > startmultipartbody
> >     self._boundary = boundary or mimetools.choose_boundary()
> >   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/mimetools.py", line 130, in
> >   choose_boundary
> >     hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> > socket.gaierror: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known')
> >>>>
> >
> > Now, I can send email from my server no problem. In fact, I have my 
>script
> > working already...but with a shell script instead of this python code.
>
>:lol:
>
> > Please advise.
> > TIA,
> > Eric
>
>You may want to take a look at simplemail.py:
>
>http://gelb.bcom.at/trac/simplemail/browser/trunk/simplemail.py
>
>that does sending mails in Python comfortably.
>
>HTH
>
>H.
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