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sendmail library using python?

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I am looking for a python library that does mailing directly through "sendmail".

When I look into the docs, I see only an "smtlip" library but nothing that could serve with sendmail or postfix.

posted Nov 13, 2013 by Garima Jain

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Use the subprocess module. Pipe to:

/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi addr1 addr2 ...    
If the exit code is 0, mail dispatched.

This is a trivial function; you don't need a library for this.

Both "sendmail" and "postfix" (and "qmail" et al) provide a "sendmail" executable for exactly this purpose.

The smtplib is for making arbitrary SMTP operations, thus a whole module. Sendmail does all that for you, you only need to deliver the message to it and ensure it was accepted.

answer Nov 13, 2013 by anonymous
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