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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 11:58 am
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 18:58:10 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 11:58 am
Subject: Sending email with Python
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Hi everyone,

Is there a package that is to email what `requests` is to HTTP?

Thanks,
Ram.


 
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oz katz  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 12:11 pm
From: oz katz <ozkatz...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 19:11:54 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 12:11 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3546] Sending email with Python
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What exactly are your needs?

There is
https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py

(from the author of "requests")
But again, you should probably be more specific..

Oz


 
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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 3:05 pm
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 22:05:00 +0300
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3547] Sending email with Python
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Thanks Oz. It's good to know about inbox.py, but that doesn't help here;
I'm interested in sending emails, not receiving them.

I basically want a function `send_mail` that takes an email address, a
subject line, and a content, and sends.

I know that Django provides one, but using Django would entail having a
"site" and a settings file, and I don't want any of those for this project.

Look at the first example here:

http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html#email-examples

Under "First, let’s see how to create and send a simple text message"

I don't know whether this should be considered sad or funny. That example
code does everything except licking a stamp in order to put it on the
email. This is the exact opposite of what I'm looking for :)


 
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Shai Berger  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 4:05 pm
From: Shai Berger <s...@platonix.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:05:48 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 4:05 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3548] Sending email with Python
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On Saturday 30 June 2012, Ram Rachum wrote:

> I basically want a function `send_mail` that takes an email address, a
> subject line, and a content, and sends.

email doesn't work this way. You need a sender, and most mail servers for
receivers will not talk to you if you don't have an MX record in DNS; which
means, in practice, you need some "recognized" mail server to send through.

So, your "send mail" function can only work after you've told it, in some way,
who's the sender, where's the mail server, and (usually) how to log in to it.

> I know that Django provides one, but using Django would entail having a
> "site" and a settings file, and I don't want any of those for this project.

The little email I did out of Django was using Lamson (lamsonproject.org) --
but again, that is more on the receiving end, and it's a whole framework.
Perhaps you can get something more to your taste out of that.

HTH,
        Shai.


 
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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 4:15 pm
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 23:15:52 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 4:15 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3549] Sending email with Python
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Sorry, I should have specified that I'm okay with specifying SMTP settings.
So: Import, specify STMP settings, send mail. Anything that does that?

Basically my approach is "simple things should be simple, complex things
should be possible." I want a package that makes the basic tasks as simple
as possible, without even having to read the documentation beyond the
"quick examples" section, and people who have more complex needs could dig
in to the documentation and the code, instantiate classes and call their
methods, etc.


 
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Yuval Adam  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 5:31 pm
From: Yuval Adam <yuv....@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 00:31:46 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 5:31 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3550] Sending email with Python
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> Sorry, I should have specified that I'm okay with specifying SMTP
> settings. So: Import, specify STMP settings, send mail. Anything that does
> that?

Yeah, the Django builtin send_mail(). I'm not sure why you think it's
complicated.

Basic Settings (Google as example):

EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'f...@example.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'secretPASS'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True

And then it's just:

send_mail('subject', 'content', 'f...@example.com', ['...@example.com'])

That's it. What's all the fuss about?

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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 5:52 pm
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 00:52:45 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 5:52 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3551] Sending email with Python
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It's almost good enough, the problem is that you need to have a Django
settings file.

Let me give you an example of usage, of something I wanted to do today.

Today, as many of you have probably noticed, half the Internet was down due
to electrical storms in the East Coast. Okay, not really half, but many big
sites. (Heroku, AWS, Pinterest, NetFlix...)

Our website was one of the casualties. It was down, and I wanted to write a
short Python script that would try to visit it every 2 minutes, and when it
finally succeeds, shoot me a mail telling me the site is back up.

Now, that script is so simple, I intended to write it in the REPL, not even
saving it to a file, and just keep it running in a `screen` session.

I wanted something to the effect of:

>>> while 'Error' in requests.get('http://oursite.com').content:

...     time.sleep(120)
... send_mail('...@rachum.com', 'Site is back up!')

Now, if I had to introduce a Django `settings.py` file into this, it would
have been a lot more cumbersome.


 
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Yuval Adam  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 6:06 pm
From: Yuval Adam <yuv....@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:06:09 +0300
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Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3552] Sending email with Python
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Well, as far as I remember the smtplib API is reasonable.
Something along the lines:

import smtplib
smtp = smtplib.SMTP('server', 'some', 'other', 'conn', 'params')
smtp.sendmail('subject', 'content', 'to', 'from')

Don't copy-paste, obviously, but real use shouldn't be much different.

Though I definitely agree it would be nice to see an SMTP equivalent for
requests.

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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jun 30 2012, 6:23 pm
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2012 01:23:21 +0300
Local: Sat, Jun 30 2012 6:23 pm
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3553] Sending email with Python
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I was almost convinced that `smtplib` is good enough, but then I saw the
example here:

http://docs.python.org/library/smtplib.html#smtp-example

Ignore the `raw_input` parts which take the bulk of the example, but look
at the construction of `msg`. You have to add the `From` and `To` headers
manually in the text. Lame.

And actually a bigger issue: You need to authenticate to the SMTP server,
and that's a separate line, calling `SMTP.login`.


 
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Ram Rachum  
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 More options Jul 4 2012, 4:26 am
From: Ram Rachum <r...@rachum.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:26:10 +0300
Local: Wed, Jul 4 2012 4:26 am
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3553] Sending email with Python
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Attached is the makeshift module I made for myself now. It's very very
basic. This way I could send email to myself in simple scripts.

To use it, replace 'your.auxiliary.em...@gmail.com', 'your.auxiliary.password'
and 'your.r...@email.com' with real values.

Hope this is useful for someone.

  lame_smtp.py
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Ori Peleg  
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 More options Jul 4 2012, 5:08 am
From: Ori Peleg <ori...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 12:08:01 +0300
Local: Wed, Jul 4 2012 5:08 am
Subject: Re: [pyweb-il:3555] Sending email with Python
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I also think smtplib is great, it's what I'd use for simply sending emails
to an upstream SMTP server.

If you want more intelligent email processing, Zed Shaw's Lamson is really
cool: http://lamsonproject.org/

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