[Tutor] Mail Server

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www.twistedmatrix.com has an smtpd class and is easy to use and powerful 
enough to handle a good amount of connections.


Danny Yoo wrote:

>On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Ali Polatel wrote:
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>>hi dear tutors,
>>I have learned the smtp module to send e-mails with Python...
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>Hi Ali,
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>Yes, 'smtplib' should do the trick:
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>http://www.python.org/doc/faq/library.html#how-do-i-send-mail-from-a-python-script
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>>but for this we need a mail server... can't a programmer write a mail
>>server that can send e-mails with Python?
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>Yes, it's possible.  There is even an undocumented one in the Standard
>Libary as 'smtpd', although I think it might just be a proxy, and not a
>full-fledged mail server.  There's a program called 'tmda':
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>    http://tmda.net/
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>but I have no personal experience with it.  And it, too, looks like it
>depends on a dedicated Mail Transfer Agent (MTA).  There are several free
>ones out there, including 'qmail', 'postfix', and 'sendmail'.
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>But mail servers are actually a bit complicated to set up, and perhaps
>thankfully so:  the spam mail problem might be even more acute than it is
>now if it were casually easy to set up a fly-by-night mail server.
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>If you want to set up your own mail server, you'll probably need some
>specialized help to set up your own MTA.  You might want to, instead, use
>the one you have from your internet service provider.
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>Hope this helps!
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