Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-14 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Thursday 14/12/2006 20:22, placid wrote: Is there any other way (other than email's !) to notify a user of events within a script? - Any IM like Jabber, MSN Messenger, ICQ... - Cell phone SMS - A telephone call delivering a prerecorded message or using text-to-speech technology - Reversed:

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-14 Thread Aidan Steele
On 14 Dec 2006 15:22:35 -0800, placid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:44:14 +1100, "Aidan Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread their

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-14 Thread placid
Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:44:14 +1100, "Aidan Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > declaimed the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread their > > original question. They want to send email *from* the Gmail acco

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread placid
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > At Wednesday 13/12/2006 21:44, Aidan Steele wrote: > > >While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread > >their original question. They want to send email *from* the Gmail > >account *to* the work account. I suggested that he use Gmail's SMTP > >server t

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread Aidan Steele
On 12/14/06, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Wednesday 13/12/2006 21:44, Aidan Steele wrote: >While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread >their original question. They want to send email *from* the Gmail >account *to* the work account. I suggested that he us

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 13/12/2006 21:44, Aidan Steele wrote: While what you said is technically correct, I think you misread their original question. They want to send email *from* the Gmail account *to* the work account. I suggested that he use Gmail's SMTP server to send the email. They were concern

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread Aidan Steele
On 12/14/06, Gabriel Genellina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At Wednesday 13/12/2006 20:45, placid wrote: > > You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him > > an email! > > And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be > > fine. > >Yes you dont nee

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread Gabriel Genellina
At Wednesday 13/12/2006 20:45, placid wrote: > You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him > an email! > And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be > fine. Yes you dont need a password to receive email, but to access Gmail and send an email

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread Aidan Steele
On 13 Dec 2006 15:45:09 -0800, placid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Gabriel Genellina wrote: > You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him > an email! > And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be > fine. Yes you dont need a password to recei

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-13 Thread placid
Gabriel Genellina wrote: > You DON'T need the password for the receiving account just to send him > an email! > And you don't even need that special Gmail library, smtplib should be > fine. Yes you dont need a password to receive email, but to access Gmail and send an email you do. Yes you do n

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-12 Thread Gabriel Genellina
placid ha escrito: > I was going to write this script for a friend that notifies him via > logging onto his Gmail account and sending him an email to his work > email about some events occurring in the execution of the script. > If you enter your password into a script as input how can someone tru

Re: Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-11 Thread Aidan Steele
Hi, As you said yourself -- it's all about trust. If this person knows nothing of programming, then (s)he is obviously at the mercy of the programmers, which is why we have warranties in commerical software, reputuations to uphold in the open source arena and malware elsewhere. ;-) Sure, there wi

Password, trust and user notification

2006-12-11 Thread placid
Hi all, I was going to write this script for a friend that notifies him via logging onto his Gmail account and sending him an email to his work email about some events occurring in the execution of the script. If you enter your password into a script as input how can someone trust the programmer t