Python Mail Server

[The Little Guy]

Is there any way to make a mail server in python?

[Mchl]

http://www.google.pl/search?q=python+mail+server

[The Little Guy]

I have already looked through that, and can't find what I am looking for.

[Mchl]

But it should answer your question. Since there apparently ARE mail servers written in python, it IS possible to do it.

[The Little Guy]

oh haha, I guess it did answer my question

 

do you (or anyone else) know where I can find info on sending/recieving mail with python without having to use an external mail server?

[Daniel0]

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc821.html

[The Little Guy]

Server:

import smtpd
import asyncore

class CustomSMTPServer(smtpd.SMTPServer):
    
    def process_message(self, peer, mailfrom, rcpttos, data):
        print 'Receiving message from:', peer
        print 'Message addressed from:', mailfrom
        print 'Message addressed to  :', rcpttos
        print 'Message length        :', len(data)
        return

server = CustomSMTPServer(('localhost', 1025), None)

asyncore.loop()

 

I have the above, I think it works, but it doesn't send the message to my gmail account. Am I missing something?

 

Client:

import smtplib
import email.utils
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

# Create the message
msg = MIMEText('This is the body of the message.')
msg['To'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Recipient', 'ryannaddy@phpsnips.com'))
msg['From'] = email.utils.formataddr(('Author', 'author@example.com'))
msg['Subject'] = 'Simple test message'

server = smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1', 1025)
server.set_debuglevel(True) # show communication with the server
try:
    server.sendmail('author@example.com', ['ryannaddy@phpsnips.com'], msg.as_string())
finally:
    server.quit()