Gmail mail server

Question

Hello,

I used use Google’s slick interface to get my mail and It’s always going to be here:

https://mail.google.com/a/yourdomainhere.com

I want to write python script that send mail so i failed to configure server settings

smtp = smtplib.SMTP('mail server should be what?', what is the port)
smtp.login('[email protected]', 'pass')

Please could any one help me ??

Thanks

Answer 1

All on gmail's support site, see http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

Answer 2

Look at the help: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=13287

Its smtp.gmail.com

Answer 3

The preferred method for SMTP message forwarding is using your ISP's SMTP server. The job of locating Google's Message transfer agent is handled by such servers.

To use Google's servers directly, you need to look up the MX records provided by google via DNS. From a Python program, a DNS library is needed. Here is an example, using dnspython, a A DNS toolkit for Python.

>>> from dns import resolver
>>> mxrecs = resolver.query('gmail.com', 'MX')
>>> [mx for mx in mxrecs]
[<DNS IN MX rdata: 20 alt2.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.>, 
<DNS IN MX rdata: 40 alt4.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.>,
<DNS IN MX rdata: 30 alt3.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.>,
<DNS IN MX rdata: 10 alt1.gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.>,
<DNS IN MX rdata: 5 gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.>]
>>> mx.exchange.to_text()
'gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com.'
>>> mx.preference
5
>>> 

The preferred mail-exchange server here is gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com, which can be used with smtplib to forward messages.