Re: smtp question

On 11-01-2010 21:54, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Monday 11 January 2010 17:54:58 Sypniewski, Bernard Paul wrote:
>    
>> So, here I am writing to you asking whether any of you know a way that we
>>   can get the required SMTP and POP3 (we will distribute the program to
>>   others) information through code so that we do not have to ask the
>>   students for information that they may have significant difficulty
>>   understanding and obtaining. We are working exclusively on WINDOWS
>>   platforms.
>>      
> For the "guessing" solution see the other emails.  As an engineer I get
> goosepimples when I read about such solutions...
>
> As far as I can see the only "serious" thing you could do is, since you're on
> pure Windows(tm) anyway, use some kind of Windows specific system wide email
> interface to send the email (MAPI?  I'm not a Windows person at all but I
> *think* I remember some trojans are/were using this to send their spam.)
>
> Of course that might depend on the people having Outlook (Express?)
> configured, and I don't know if a Python wrapper for this interface exists.
>
>    
These days, more and more people (on windows), don't have an email 
client installed, they use a webinterface for mail ( and other programs),
so the only reliable way seems to setup your own mail server.

cheers,
Stef
> cheers
> -- vbi
>
>    
>
>
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