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two questions (RFC822, login info) about sending email via python

1 - In my email-sending script, I store spaced-out emails in a string, then I use ", ".join(to.split()). However, it looks like the script only sends to the 1st email - is it something to do with RFC822 format? If so, how can I fix this? 2 - I feel a bit edgy having my password visable in my script. Is there a way to retrieve this in...

Testing SMTP with .net

I need to configure a SMTP server for testing my website which sends emails (for registration confirmation etc). I dont actually want the email to be sent, I just want to make sure that my code is correct. So I want to be able to check that the email is placed in a queue folder for example. Can anybody recommend a SMTP server which is...

Send mail programmatically w/attachments is undeliverable

I am trying to send mail using vb.net from iis through a smart host (mailenable) and out through the internet. When I send mail without attachments it goes out just fine. When I send mail created the same way with an attachment the smart host gets an error sending the email. "mailenable the remote server appears to have failed or to h...

How do I send email to my Gmail account using SMTP and Perl?

I don't want to use sendmail to send an email but would prefer to use SMTP. How can I use Perl to send an email to my GMAIL account? ...

What is the easiest way for a Java application to receive incoming email?

Sending email is easy with commons-email, and with spring it is even easier. What about receiving incoming email? Are there easy to use APIs that allow to bounce emails, process attachments, etc. ...

SMTP and Unicode/UTF-8 characters...? How do I send them? base64 everything?

Using SMTP, how do you send unicode/UTF-8 e-mails? Am I expected to base64 encode the UTF-8 body and specify that in the MIME header or...? How about the headers? I'm sure there's a standard somewhere the describes this... but apparently I'm too tired/still too sick to find it... Thanks! ...

How to check if an email address exists without sending an email?

I have come across this PHP code to check email address using SMTP without sending an email. Has anyone tried anything similar or does it work for you? Can you tell if an email customer / user enters is correct & exists? Thanks! ...

How can I save an email instead of sending when using SmtpClient?

I am using SmtpClient to send an email with an attachment. However for a certain batch we need to somehow save the MailMessage instead of sending them. We are then thinking/hoping to manually upload the messages to the users drafts folder. Is it possible to save these messages with the attachment intact (impossible, I would have thought...

Retrieve SMTP response of a mail

Hi friends, Is it possible to retrieve the SMTP response of a mail. For example, I am sending a mail to non existing email id. Surely our server will send us a mailer daemon failure mail to our mail id. I need to capture that failure mail. How its possible? please explain me. Some time we may enter more than one non existing email id,...

Joomla 1.5: why does trying to send email result in: PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED

Hi, I'm trying to send emails from Joomla! 1.5.9, but keep getting this error message: PHPMAILER_RECIPIENTS_FAILED*recipient_name*<*recipient_email*> A few more facts: It's a WAMP server (joomla 1.5.9, PHP 5.2.8) Validation emails are sent with no problem at all Joomla! is set to use SMTP The IIS SMTP service is used (though I'm not ...

capture the Failure mail

Hi friends, Is it possible to capture the failure mail. I have created a application for sending mail, i have a log file to store the sent mails. If the sent mail is failure, i just want to find out the failure mail and update the log file. Is it possible! Is there any way to match the sent mail and the failure mail Please help me and...

SMTPClient Half Working \ Half Not

I am using Microsoft's membership framework on a website. I am able to send password retrieval e-mails, but am unable to send e-mails myself using SMTPClient. When you configure the SMTP settings in the Web Site Administration Tool, what are the settings that this application give it's SMTPclient? If I know this, I can duplicate it and...

SMTP email errors in Rails

Hi, We just had our Rails app spit an error when ActionMailer was trying to send an email: Net::SMTPServerBusy - 451 Error while writing spool file We're using our own SMTP mailservers to send. Anyone know the details on this and how we can avoid it happening again in the future or if its possible to make ActionMailer try to send the ...

Constraints on SMTP Message-Id?

Are there constraints on the length and/or format of SMTP message-id's? I.e.: How long may they be, and are only certain characters allowed? (I plan to use only ASCII, but I fear that there may even be ASCII characters which aren't allowed.) RFC822 defines this, but are there updated RFCs or common real-World aspects (such as common bug...

How to build a PHP webmail script?

1) How can a linux server be configured such that it can receive any emails sent to [email protected]. 2) How can these emails be accessed and displayed by a PHP script? I'm building a simple web mail script, so i want to receive emails only for the registered email accounts and classify their emails and show them. Needs also to hav...

IIS Smtp Server

Hi My application needs to send thousands of emails on a daily basis. So I thought about writing my own smtp server, using C#, which would pull a database every minute to see if there are any pending email messages. But, then I came across Microsoft's IIS SMTP service.... My question : Can the IIS SMTP service handle that amount of...

Convert email address from X400 to SMTP

I'm trying to get the SMTP address from an X400 address in VB.Net. If I bring up the Outlook properties for a user in our domain, and look at the "Email Addresses", I can see the SMTP address, but I need to get at it through code. I tried inspecting the Address Book in OutlookSpy to see if I could come up with a property in the outlook...

Exim sender callout verification but only for my domains

I have exim 4 on my backup MX server. I'd like to configure it so that sender callout address verification is done, but only where the domain part of the sender address is listed in local_domains or relay_to_domains i.e. the mail purports to be from a domain I manage. I want to use this because my primary MX will reject messages which h...

Logging SMTP traffic on Windows Server 2008

I am trying to log outbound email traffic on an IIS server. I installed a tool called "IIS SMTP Monitor" that seems to have received favorable reviews, and the tool is also recommended on the Microsoft site. It essentially monitors the SMTP pickup folder. We never get anything to show up in the log except for the first email. Maybe the ...

Meaningful interaction with IIS SMTP Server in .Net

Our business sends a newsletter to a vast number of subscribers every week. When the business was very young, before I joined, they used a "free" version of some mass mailer that took six hours to send 5K mails and fell foul of every reverse DNS check on the internet. I upgraded this to a bespoke .Net widget that ran on the correct serv...