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Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 18:17:46 +1100
From: Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>
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On 13Nov2013 05:52, Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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.

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.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au>

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