[Tutor] smtplib with yahoo smtp server

[Ewald Ertl]

Hi!

I made a copy of the source you posted.
I just got a problem as expected when doing the session.login()
because the access-data is invalid.
The connection via the smtplib.SMTP() could be established.

Perhaps there is something wrong with your namelookup.

Can you try a call in the interactive environment for
	socket.gethostname()
or
	socket.gethostbyname( socket.gethostname() )

Can you resolve the hostname "smtp.mail.yahoo.com" on a commandline?
e.g. nslookup smtp.mail.yahoo.com ?

Hope this can help you

Ewald
	

Intercodes wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I am working with a registration system for my website in mod_python. I
> needed to send mail to registered users for confirmation. Since I can't
> use my ISP's smtp server, I used yahoo's smtp server and my yahoo
> username and password  to connect and send mail using this script (see
> below). But I get the following error.
> 
> "Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "mail.py", line 12, in ?
>     session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 255, in __init__
>     addr = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> socket.gaierror: (-2, 'Name or service not known')
> "
> 
> I got this script from some website I can't remember and just changed
> some values to get it to work. Is is possible to send mail like this? Is
> there any other easy way to do this?
> 
> Thanks for your time.
> ---------------------------
> 
> import smtplib
> 
> smtpserver = 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com <http://smtp.mail.yahoo.com>'
> AUTHREQUIRED = 1 
> smtpuser = 
> 'intercodes at .[snip]..' //
> smtppass = '[snip]'  
> 
> RECIPIENTS = ['intercodes@[snip]']
> SENDER = 'intercodes@[snip]'
> mssg = "mod python"
> 
> session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
> *if* AUTHREQUIRED:
>     session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
> smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)**
> 
> 
> -- 
> Intercodes
> 
> 
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