[1551] Testing a Program that Sends E-mail with the Fakemail Server (4/4)
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video tutorial by Tim Bower
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Kansas State University at Salina
`Tim Bower <http://www.sal.ksu.edu/faculty/tim/>`_
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This video demonstrated how you can use the Fakemail e-mail server for testing purposes while developing a program that sends e-mail messages.
Fakemail was written by Graham Ashton and the project's home page is hosted on Source Forge.
In addition, the video also shows the use of Python's email.MIMEText module to build a simple message and shows sending the message with sockets according to the SMTP protocol. You will want to use the smtplib module to send e-mail messages, instead of doing it your self with sockets. I use sockets in the video just to demonstrate the SMTP protocol conversation between the client and server.
For more information about Python network programming, see my Network Programming Study Guide
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from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Utils
import socket
def send_recv(sock, msg):
print msg
sock.send(msg+'\r\n')
try:
r = sock.recv(1024)
print r
except socket.timeout, e:
print "Socket Timeout - %s\n" % str(e)
def smtpSocket(server, domain, msg):
s = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
s.setsockopt(socket.SOL_SOCKET, socket.SO_REUSEADDR, 1)
s.settimeout(5)
try:
s.connect(server)
r = s.recv(1024)
print r
except socket.timeout, e:
print "Socket Timeout - %s\n" % str(e)
return
send_recv(s,'HELO ' + domain)
mFrom = "MAIL From:<%s>" % msg['From']
send_recv(s, mFrom)
mRcpt = "RCPT To:<%s>" % msg['To']
send_recv(s, mRcpt)
send_recv(s, 'DATA')
send_recv(s, msg.as_string()+'\r\n.')
send_recv(s, 'QUIT')
s.close()
message = """Hello,
This is a test message.
-- Tim"""
msg = MIMEText(message)
msg['To'] = 'you@home'
msg['From'] = 'me@school'
msg['Subject'] = 'Testing Python e-mail'
msg['Date'] = Utils.formatdate(localtime = 1)
msg['Message-ID'] = Utils.make_msgid()
server = ('localhost', 8025)
domain = 'localhost'
##server = ('postman.sal.ksu.edu', 25)
#domain = 'sal.ksu.edu'
smtpSocket(server, domain, msg)
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Thanks for the valuable stuff. Its very helpful to increase the knowledge.
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