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 =
> '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' //
> smtppass = '[snip]'
>
> RECIPIENTS = ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]']
> SENDER = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> mssg = "mod python"
>
> session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
> *if* AUTHREQUIRED:
> session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
> smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)**
>
>
> --
> Intercodes
>
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