Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-26 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:48:41 +0200, rumours say that Piet van Oostrum [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: And most smtp servers that I know also pass mail from any from-address to any to-address if the IP number of he client machine belongs to a trusted range (usually the range that belongs to

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-26 Thread Christos Georgiou
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 07:50:26 +0100, rumours say that Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] might have written: I agree that there's an element of the moral imperative in my assertion that the mails should go through which is largely ignored by the real world nowadays. Some ISPs force you to use their

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-21 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: Steve Holden wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: In any case, unless the mail server will allow relaying, which most don't these days (to prevent spamming), then it won't work the way you are hoping unless *all* the 100 addresses are local ones, to be delivered to users on the

Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Chris Dewin
Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list contains well over 100 emails. Would that

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 20/09/05, Chris Dewin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list contains well over 100 emails. Would that create some sort of

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Daniel Dittmar
Chris Dewin wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list contains

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Tim Williams (gmail)
On 20/09/05, Daniel Dittmar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Dewin wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) Not really an answer to your question, but it's probably

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Daniel Dittmar wrote: Chris Dewin wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Chris Dewin wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list contains

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Steve Holden
Peter Hansen wrote: Chris Dewin wrote: Hi. I've been thinking about using smtplib to run a mailing list from my website. s = smtplib.SMTP(server) s.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddresess, msg) I know that in this instance, the toaddresses variable can be a variable of type list. Suppose the list

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Piet van Oostrum
Steve Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SH) wrote: SH To add one final note, if the fromaddress belongs to a domain that's SH properly handled by the SMTP server then you aren't relaying (since you are SH a legitimate domain user) so the mails should go through. And most smtp servers that I know also

Re: Question about smtplib, and mail servers in general.

2005-09-20 Thread Peter Hansen
Steve Holden wrote: Peter Hansen wrote: In any case, unless the mail server will allow relaying, which most don't these days (to prevent spamming), then it won't work the way you are hoping unless *all* the 100 addresses are local ones, to be delivered to users on the server you are