Hello! Grady Henry wrote: > Here is a program that I wrote using the first example at 12.2.13 > Examples at the www.python.org <http://www.python.org> website, > > # Import smtplib for the actual sending function > import smtplib > > # Import the email modules we'll need > from email.MIMEText import MIMEText > > # Open a plain text file for reading. For this example, assume that > # the text file contains only ASCII characters. > fp = open('C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\\text3.txt','rb') > # Create a text/plain message > msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) > fp.close() > > # me == the sender's email address > # you == the recipient's email address > msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % 'C:\Documents and > Settings\User\Desktop\\text3.txt' > msg['From'] = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> > msg['To'] = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <mailto:'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'> > > # Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the > # envelope header. > s = smtplib.SMTP() > s.connect() > s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string()) > s.close() > > When I run the program using IDLE, I get the following message: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "C:\Documents and Settings\User\Desktop\textsender.py", line 23, in ? > s.connect() > File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect > (code, msg) = self.getreply() > File "C:\Python24\lib\smtplib.py", line 348, in getreply > line = self.file.readline() > File "C:\Python24\lib\socket.py", line 340, in readline > data = self._sock.recv(self._rbufsize) > error: (10054, 'Connection reset by peer') > > What does this mean, and how can I fix it? You try to connect to your localhost on Port 25 for sending email. Because of the Windows-Error 10054 'Connection reset by peer', I think you do not have an email server running on your server. Perhaps you can supply your email server in smtplib.SMTP(). Here is the pydoc of the init-Method:
__init__(self, host='', port=0, local_hostname=None) Initialize a new instance. If specified, `host' is the name of the remote host to which to connect. If specified, `port' specifies the port to which to connect. By default, smtplib.SMTP_PORT is used. An SMTPConnectError is raised if the specified `host' doesn't respond correctly. If specified, `local_hostname` is used as the FQDN of the local host. By default, the local hostname is found using socket.getfqdn(). HTH Ewald _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor