[lug] python script to send email via SMTP

[Evelyn Mitchell]

* On 2007-07-17 11:14 Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> I found the following script online.  I haven't learned Python yet, so I
> can't tell if it should work or not, but it seems to at least try to
> work.  The problem is I get the following traceback when it's run:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "./mail.py", line 20, in ?
>     session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.4/smtplib.py", line 587, in login
>     raise SMTPAuthenticationError(code, resp)
> smtplib.SMTPAuthenticationError: (535, 'Error: authentication failed')

You're not authenticating to the SMTP server.
> 
> Should this work?  Have I just forgotten my SMTP password?  I'm just
> trying to send email from the command line (like via cron jobs) without
> having to set up sendmail (for which I have no clue how to do SMTP login
> authentication stuff).  If there is another way - bash, perl, or C
> preferred - I'm all ears.
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env python
> #
> #  Sending mail using python
> #-----------------------------------------------------------
> import smtplib
> 
> smtpserver = 'myserver.com'
> AUTHREQUIRED = 1 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
> smtpuser = 'userid at myserver.com'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username

You'd add your smtp username here, or turn it off in the line above.

> here
> smtppass = 'xxx'  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here

You'd set your smtp password here, if you're using SMTP suth.

> RECIPIENTS = ['person at place.com']
> SENDER = 'sender at otherplace.com'
> mssg = open('msg.txt', 'r').read()
> 
> session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
> if AUTHREQUIRED:
>     session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
> smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)
> 
> if smtpresult:
>     errstr = ""
>     for recip in smtpresult.keys():
>         errstr = """Could not delivery mail to: %s
> 
> Server said: %s
> %s
> 
> %s""" % (recip, smtpresult[recip][0], smtpresult[recip][1], errstr)
>     raise smtplib.SMTPException, errstr
> 
> -- 
> Michael J. Hammel                                    Senior Software Engineer
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org                           http://graphics-muse.org
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