[sylpheed:36804] Re: using a python program to send e-mail with sylpheed

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

Anyone have a suggestion on how to make a send-mail facillity written in python can work here?

Many thanks in advance and best wishes,
Ranjan

On Sat, 27 Apr 2019 18:43:52 -0500 Ranjan Maitra <maitra at email.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am trying to figure out how to use sylpheed with sending e-mail in python (which is the only way that I can send e-mail from work).
>
> I have the following python script (which is deliberately simple at this stage for me to simply understand what to do).
>
> #!/usr/bin/python
>
> import smtplib
> import email.utils
> from email.mime.text import MIMEText
> import getpass
>
> # Prompt the user for connection info
> to_email = input('Recipient: ')
> servername = input('Mail server name: ')
> serverport = input('Server port: ')
> if serverport:
>     serverport = int(serverport)
> else:
>     serverport = 25
> use_tls = input('Use TLS? (yes/no): ').lower()
> username = input('Mail username: ')
> password = getpass.getpass("%s's password: " % username)
>
> # Create the message
> msg = MIMEText('Test message from PyMOTW.')
> msg.set_unixfrom('author')
> msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', to_email))
> msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Author', username))
> msg['Subject'] = 'Test from PyMOTW'
>
> if use_tls == 'yes':
>     print('starting with a secure connection')
>     server = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(servername, serverport)
> else:
>     print('starting with an insecure connection')
>     server = smtplib.SMTP(servername, serverport)
> try:
>     server.set_debuglevel(True)
>
>     # identify ourselves, prompting server for supported features
>     server.ehlo()
>
>     # If we can encrypt this session, do it
>     if server.has_extn('STARTTLS'):
>         print('(starting TLS)')
>         server.starttls()
>         server.ehlo()  # reidentify ourselves over TLS connection
>     else:
>         print('(no STARTTLS)')
>
>     if server.has_extn('AUTH'):
>         print('(logging in)')
>         server.login(username, password)
>     else:
>         print('(no AUTH)')
>
>     server.sendmail(username,
>                     to_email,
>                     msg.as_string())
> finally:
>     server.quit()
>
>
>
> I can get it to work with my mail server, etc from the command line when I send the e-mail in the following way (note that the program is called mailsend.py and is an executable).
>
> ./mailsend
>
> Then, I am asked the following:
> Recipient e-mail
> Server address
> Port
> Whether TLS or not
> Sender e-mail
> Sender password
>
> to which stdin output is required and upon correct submission, the e-mail is successfully sent.
>
> My question is how do I get the sylpheed mailer to submit these stdin output so that the script can take over from here and deliver.
>
> I am happy to provide more information.
>
> Many thanks in advance for any help, and I am sorry if this is a trivial question. I am not very familiar with the sending side of things and I still want to be able to use sylpheed.
>
> Best wishes,
> Ranjan
>
>
--
Important Notice: This mailbox is ignored: e-mails are set to be deleted on receipt. Please respond to the mailing list if appropriate. For those needing to send personal or professional e-mail, please use appropriate addresses.