[Pythonmac-SIG] Sending emails via localhost

[Michael Hudson]

Lee Joramo <lee.list@joramo.com> writes:

> I am trying to send mail from  python's smtplib via the localhost, and 
> get an error:
> 
> 	socket.error: (61, 'Connection refused')
> 
> a quick search of the net indicates that Mac OS X 10.2 does not have a 
> localhost SMTP server running by default. I want python to be able to 
> send mail to local accounts for administrative notices and I want to be 
> able to test web development code while my powerbook is not on the net.
> 
> I suspect that I need to learn how to setup sendmail or some other mail 
> server on my system, but I was hoping that other mac python users may 
> have some experience to share.

Mac OS X has /usr/bin/mail...

sendmail seems to be installed, but as you say not started by default.

Cheers,
M.

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