Is there a way to send newsletter from my pc ( ubuntu 10.04 ) and python ?
maybe with a smtp library ?
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2Maybe... What have you tried? What has not worked? What has? – soulseekah Jan 11 '11 at 15:55
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Why don't you use a mail client? (Thunderbird, Evolution, Outlook, …) – Simon Jan 11 '11 at 15:56
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If you can use PHP then PHPmailer maybe a good option. – johngreen Jan 11 '11 at 15:59
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2You'll also need an SMTP *server* to talk to... – Vicky Jan 11 '11 at 15:59
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This belongs on superuser.com – Jim Garrison Jan 11 '11 at 16:21
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1It could be a legitimate programming question, it's rather broad and ambiguous at the moment though. – Flexo Jan 11 '11 at 16:29
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@awoodland - Disagree. Any actual question buried in there is a system admin or poweruser question, not a programming question. – T.E.D. Jan 11 '11 at 16:40
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If this is going to be a regular task, install Mailman (if you don't already have it) and learn how to use it.
Jim Garrison
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Here is a script that can be used to send an email using a gmail or Google domain apps email account. It uses Google's SMTP server, so you don't need to configure one locally.
Using its 'mail' function, it's easy to send a message. For example:
# function signature: def mail(to, subject, text, attach)
mail("some.person@some.address.com",
"Hello from python!",
"This is a email sent with python",
"my_picture.jpg")
You could easily modify the 'mail' function to remove 'attach' if you don't want an attachment, or make it an optional keyword argument.
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The simplest way is to pipe the output of your python program to the mail command on an appropriately configured system:
python my.py | mail -s "test mail sending" "your@email.com"
(For Ubuntu on your PC that probably means using the SMTP servers from your ISP as a smarthost for exim or another MTA)
If that doesn't cut it you're going to want to make your python script talk to some mailserver(s), usually using SMTP. There's a python library for this, see this question for an example generating MIME and probably others too.
