On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 11:46:52 -0600, Michael Torrie <torr...@gmail.com> wrote: >What you're looking for is not an SMTP server but a Mail Transfer Agent, >called an MTA. > >Pretty much all distros ship with an MTA by default, even if the SMTP >server part of it isn't installed or running. And often the MTA is, for >compatibility reasons, /usr/sbin/sendmail. > >http://stackoverflow.com/questions/73781/sending-mail-via-sendmail-from-python > >I'm sure there are MTA's implemented in python. Now that you know what >they are called (not SMTP servers!) you can search for them. > >Dennis is correct, though, that most ISPs do block outbound port 25 >connections for security and spam reasons, and require you to use their >SMTP server, which precludes the use of the local MTA.
Thanks for the infos. Ideally, I was looking for a simple Windows app as MTA, but a Python script is OK. I'm not sure my ISP blocks outbound port 25 connections. I'll experiment with a small Linux box. I wist they would use a smarter SPAM filter that wouldn't flag perfectly legit-looking outgoing e-mails. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
