sending emails using python

[sridhar]

iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
with that can i send an email using python?

if iam using the following code iam getting error
fromAddress = 's************* *@satyam.com'
toAddress = 's************* *@satyam.com'
msg = "Subject: Hello\n\nThis is the body of the message."
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP("h stmsg002",25)
server.sendmail (fromAddress, toAddress, msg)

error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\sridhar\Beg inning_Python\B eginning_Python \Chapter16\tryi tout\InitialMai lExample.py",
line 5, in ?
server = smtplib.SMTP("h stmsg002",25)
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(ho st, port)
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect
(code, msg) = self.getreply()
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 351, in getreply
raise SMTPServerDisco nnected("Connec tion unexpectedly closed")
SMTPServerDisco nnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

[Tim Williams]

On 07/09/06, Hari Sekhon <hp******@googl email.comwrote:

>
Grant Edwards wrote:
On 2006-09-07, Sybren Stuvel
<sy*******@YOUR thirdtower.com. imaginationwrot e:
Tim Williams enlightened us with:
Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar
POP3/IMAP mail client?

Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?

I would, but I don't use exchange server. :)

The one exchange server I used in the past didn't accept SMTP
mail.
errr, I used to admin Exchange, if it does accept SMTP then how could it
function as a live mail server?

Did you mean *doesn't accept* ??

There are a couple of possibilities at least, of the top of my head:

* The IMC / IMS (smtp connector) is located on a different server
within its Exchange organisation, or a DMZ'ed exchange server that is
only used for SMTP.

* The server doesn't accept SMTP from local IP ranges, only from
external (ie inbound email)

Outlook / Exchange clients use MAPI, internal SMTP is only a
requirement if you have non-MAPI clients sending email through the
server.

HTH :)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2006-09-07, Tim Williams <ti*@tdw.netwro te:

> Wouldn't you use a SMTP client to send email?

I would, but I don't use exchange server. :)

The one exchange server I used in the past didn't accept SMTP
mail.

errr, I used to admin Exchange, if it does accept SMTP then
how could it function as a live mail server?

Did you mean *doesn't accept* ??

One presumes he did.

There are a couple of possibilities at least, of the top of my
head:

* The IMC / IMS (smtp connector) is located on a different
server within its Exchange organisation, or a DMZ'ed
exchange server that is only used for SMTP.

* The server doesn't accept SMTP from local IP ranges, only
from external (ie inbound email)

I believe it was the latter. I'm pretty sure there was only
one server. When I first started at that company it did accept
SMTP connections on it's internal network interface.

Outlook / Exchange clients use MAPI, internal SMTP is only a
requirement if you have non-MAPI clients sending email through
the server.

And BOFH was horrified by non-MS software, so he shut off IMAP
support and SMTP support on the internal network as a way to
force everybody to switch to Outlook.

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[sridhar]

Tim Williams wrote:

On 07/09/06, Sybren Stuvel <sy*******@your thirdtower.com. imaginationwrot e:

sridhar enlightened us with:

iam having user account on an exchangeserver.
with that can i send an email using python?
>
if iam using the following code iam getting error
>
Traceback (most recent call last):
File
"C:\sridhar\Beg inning_Python\B eginning_Python \Chapter16\tryi tout\InitialMai lExample.py",
line 5, in ?
server = smtplib.SMTP("h stmsg002",25)
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 244, in __init__
(code, msg) = self.connect(ho st, port)
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 307, in connect
(code, msg) = self.getreply()
File "C:\Python24\li b\smtplib.py", line 351, in getreply
raise SMTPServerDisco nnected("Connec tion unexpectedly closed")
SMTPServerDisco nnected: Connection unexpectedly closed

Well that's useless. You could install a network sniffer
(http://www.ethereal.com/) and find out what's actually sent over the
network connection, and where things go wrong.

Have you verified that you are allowed to use SMTP on this server ?
Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar POP3/IMAP
mail client?

:)

yes , because iam having account on that server

[Tim Williams]

On 14 Sep 2006 00:11:05 -0700, sridhar <ra************ *****@gmail.com wrote:

>
Tim Williams wrote:

Have you verified that you are allowed to use SMTP on this server ?
Can you send email via it using outlook express or a similar POP3/IMAP
mail client?

:)

yes , because iam having account on that server

Having an account on an Exchange server doesn't automatically mean you
have SMTP access to that server. Some exchange servers don't have
SMTP running at all, and others will not allow SMTP access from local
IP addresses - even with authentication.

Can you telnet to your Exchange server on port 25 and start an SMTP
conversation, using the EHLO or HELO, MAIL and RCPT commands, but
quitting before the DATA command? If you can successfully specify a
recipient, then your script should work, if not you will need your
script to work around the problem based on what you do or don't get
back from the server.

HTH :)