Yet more SMTP

[LutherRevisited]

Ok with some tweaking I got it to where I could send through my local isp's
smtp server, but I am restricted to sending the message from my ISP's mail
account. When I respond to Yahoo mail, I want to use my yahoo address. I was
able to get into aol's smtp with:
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.aol.com', 587)
s.set_debuglevel(1)
s.ehlo()
s.docmd('AUTH', 'PLAIN')
s.docmd('LutherRevisited')
s.docmd('myPassword')
s.sendmail('l**************@aol.com', [to], msg)
s.quit()
but I'm unable to send on that server with my yahoo address, when I try this on
yahoo's smtp server it does not require me to use AUTH, but AOL drops my
messages giving me some kind of 'bulk mail, yada yada' message. I don't have
this problem with Outlook using Yahoo's smtp server, so I'm curious to know
what it is that Outlook is doing that I'm missing in my code? With Yahoo I did
something like:
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.yahoo.com')
s.set_debuglevel(1)
s.ehlo()
s.sendmail('b*************@yahoo.com', [to], msg)
s.quit()
but this is dropped for some odd reason. Any thoughts? Also I never got the
login method of smtp to work with AOL's smtp, so I had to run through that by
hand. Can someone tell me if I'm missing something there also?

[Brad Tilley]

LutherRevisited wrote:

Ok with some tweaking I got it to where I could send through my local isp's
smtp server, but I am restricted to sending the message from my ISP's mail
account. When I respond to Yahoo mail, I want to use my yahoo address. I was
able to get into aol's smtp with:
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.aol.com', 587)
s.set_debuglevel(1)
s.ehlo()
s.docmd('AUTH', 'PLAIN')
s.docmd('LutherRevisited')
s.docmd('myPassword')
s.sendmail('l**************@aol.com', [to], msg)
s.quit()
but I'm unable to send on that server with my yahoo address, when I try this on
yahoo's smtp server it does not require me to use AUTH, but AOL drops my
messages giving me some kind of 'bulk mail, yada yada' message. I don't have
this problem with Outlook using Yahoo's smtp server, so I'm curious to know
what it is that Outlook is doing that I'm missing in my code? With Yahoo I did
something like:
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.yahoo.com')
s.set_debuglevel(1)
s.ehlo()
s.sendmail('b*************@yahoo.com', [to], msg)
s.quit()
but this is dropped for some odd reason. Any thoughts? Also I never got the
login method of smtp to work with AOL's smtp, so I had to run through that by
hand. Can someone tell me if I'm missing something there also?

You may find this URL helpful:

http://techsupport.ath.vt.edu/X-Junkmail-Status.html

[LutherRevisited]

Thanks for the reply, that link is down right now, but I'll give it a look
tommorow. Getting technical support from AOL is like pulling teeth......geez.
This guy was insisting that I should contact Yahoo about this. How in the
world is Yahoo going to be able to answer my questions about the smtp server
that aol rerouted me too?

[Gerhard Haering]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 12:03:08AM +0000, LutherRevisited wrote:

[...]
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.aol.com', 587)
[...]
s.docmd('AUTH', 'PLAIN')
[...]

Don't reinvent the wheel. Use .login instead(). Also, PLAIN doesn't
mean you send the password in plain text (it's encoded with base64).
And the developers of the Python standard library - in this case, me
:-P - already did that work once for you in .login() of the SMTP
object ;-)

-- Gerhard

[Brad Tilley]

LutherRevisited wrote:

Thanks for the reply, that link is down right now, but I'll give it a look
tommorow. Getting technical support from AOL is like pulling teeth......geez.
This guy was insisting that I should contact Yahoo about this. How in the
world is Yahoo going to be able to answer my questions about the smtp server
that aol rerouted me too?

We had a power outage last night around 10:PM Eastern time. The link is
back up now.