I have written a code in jython 2.5, which uses the smtplib sendmail to send mail over a smtp server. Below is a simple snippet of the code
mail = MIMEMultipart('mixed')
mail['Subject'] = mail_subject
mail['FROM']=UstrSender
mail['To']=UstrReceivers
mail['Cc']=UstrCC
mail_p2=MIMEText(mail_html, 'html', 'utf-8')
mail.attach(mail_p2)
#Connection to SMTP
#Enter SMTP Server Details, In case your server do require authentication modify authentication parameter below and uncomment
s = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
#s.sendmail(UstrSender, [UstrReceivers, UstrCC], mail.as_string())
sendmail_return = s.sendmail(UstrSender, [UstrReceivers, UstrCC], mail.as_string())
Now, the smtp server mentioned is a cluster of 3 individual servers and there is a lag at times on one of these servers because of a long queue of requests. To identify such issues and the culprit server, need to have a generic script to identify the queue id of the message being sent. Kindly, help on the same, if using docmd we can create such a command to get the queue id of the submitted email.
I tried getting a response from sendmail itself, but since the mail is eventually sent, there is no return from the command.
Thanks,
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I'm trying to send a message from localhost:1025. I'm running an SMTP debug server using this command python -m smtpd -n localhost:1025.
Here is the code used for sending the mail:
msg = mailer.Message(From='noreply#'+company['host'],
To=req['mail'],
Subject='E-mail confirmation',
Body=Template(open('./confirmation.html').read()).render(company=company, account=account, accode=accode))
mailer.Mailer(company['host'], port=1025).send(msg)
The req['mail'] contains my email address, when I checked my email inbox and spam folders, I didn't find any message - What's, supposedly, caused this problem?
As is made quite clear in the documentation the debugging server does not attempt to deliver email messages. This is to allow testing and verification of the email's content without actually sending any mail.
I have a python function to send an email notification. I have included the login call to authenticate with my local SMTP server, however emails are being returned stating '553-mail rejected because your IP is in the PBL'. Further reading on https://www.spamhaus.org/pbl reveals that apparently I am not being prevented from sending email, I am simply required to authenticate first.
I have tried base64 encoding to avoid sending the password as plain text without success.
I have also looked at the Pysasl library, but I am a little unsure how I might use this for authenticating with my SMTP server.
Would anyone have any guidance as to the correct use of either base64 encoding, the pysasl library or if a better method exists for satisfying the correct authentication requirements?
My code is below.
def emailNotify(self,userid):
SMTPserver = 'localhost'
sender = '***' # blanked
username = '***' # blanked
receiver = '***' # blanked
pwd = '***' # blanked
text_subtype = 'plain'
msg = 'requested data was posted to dashboard for '+userid
subject = 'confirmation of POST\'d data for '+userid
try:
msg = MIMEText(msg, text_subtype)
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg['From'] = sender
conn = smtplib.SMTP(SMTPserver)
conn.login(username, pwd)
try:
conn.sendmail(sender, receiver, msg.as_string())
finally:
conn.quit()
except:
print('message sending failed')
Thanks in advance.
You have 2 ways of building a program for sending mail:
build a bullet proof solution:
analyze what server announces as its capabilities
choose the one that better meets your requirement
use that authentication method
actually send the mail
simply that means that you have to implement code for reading and decoding what the server returns (which can be weird) and also all various authentication methods, not speaking of TLS
use a custom connection method adapted to that server
read the documentation of the server to know what it declares to support
test it manually first through a mere telnet connection then in an interactive Python session (idle is enough here, but you can choose your prefered Python shell)
carefully program the way you have just tested - but leave relevant error messages in cases the server capabilities change...
IMHO much simpler...
I made a simple keylogger in C++. I want to send an email with the input the keylogger made using Python. I know you can do it with C++ but I want to use Python.
You I hope that your keylogger is for educational purposes only. Anyway,
here is a simple way to send one e-mail using Python script.
#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
sender = 'from#fromdomain.com'
receivers = ['to#todomain.com']
message = """From: From Person <from#fromdomain.com>
To: To Person <to#todomain.com>
Subject: SMTP e-mail test
This is a test e-mail message.
"""
try:
smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)
print "Successfully sent email"
except SMTPException:
print "Error: unable to send email"
Here, you have placed a basic e-mail in message, using a triple quote, taking care to format the headers correctly. An e-mail requires a From, To, and Subject header, separated from the body of the e-mail with a blank line.
To send the mail you use smtpObj to connect to the SMTP server on the local machine and then use the sendmail method along with the message, the from address, and the destination address as parameters (even though the from and to addresses are within the e-mail itself, these aren't always used to route mail).
If you're not running an SMTP server on your local machine, you can use smtplib client to communicate with a remote SMTP server. Unless you're using a webmail service (such as Hotmail or Yahoo! Mail), your e-mail provider will have provided you with outgoing mail server details that you can supply them, as follows:
smtplib.SMTP('mail.your-domain.com', 25)
Source: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/python/python_sending_email.htm
I'm building and testing a web service on my local machine before i put it in production. I want to test the mail service. I'm using the standard python email and smtplib libraries.
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
fp = open('textfile', 'rb')
msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
fp.close()
me = 'me_email#localhost'
you = 'me_again_email#localhost'
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' %fp
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
I have not configured sendmail and hence it throws an error. But since I just want to test my web service I am not concerned if sendmail cant send an email right now. My service is designed to pulls some records off db and send them an email. So i want to know if this connection, python taking inputs from db and pushing an email is working. I want to receive the email on localhost sent via the script.
An SMTP server needs to be configured for sending emails. Sending emails is not possible unless you configure an SMTP server. More information on using python smtplib can be found in pymotw.com, tutorialspoint.com and Python docs.
I am developing my first website. I have page where people can leave message to me. What I am doing is sending a AJAX call to the server, and the server gets the content of the message, then login in an gmail account and send the message to another gmail account using python's email libraries smtplib and email.
It works ok, but the problem is it takes more than one minute on my laptop, the loading image on the client side would keep spinning during the time. I think the bottleneck is login().
mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
mailServer.ehlo()
mailServer.starttls()
mailServer.ehlo()
# login, send email, logout
mailServer.login(conf.user, conf.pw)
mailServer.sendmail(conf.user, to, msg.as_string())
mailServer.close()
So is there any way to speed this up, or other ways to do this.
Thanks
So the delay is probably caused by Google's SMTP server as they do a reverse lookup of the IP address of your webserver - mail systems often do this as part of sending e-mail.
What you have coded is only needed if you intended to send mail out from your account - that is when you need to perform authenticated SMTP. If you want to only mail your own account then you can remove the login step. Note, that you will have to change the mail server from smtp.gmail.com to one of Google's inbound mail (MX) servers. Also, if you are performing a simple forward you will have to handle e-mail rejection or other connection problems so having your script dump the mail to a simple mail server running on the mail server would be helpful.