send email to localhost from localhost via python

问题

I'm building and testing a web service on my local machine before i put it in production. I want to test the mail service. I'm using the standard python email and smtplib libraries.

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
fp = open('textfile', 'rb')
msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
fp.close()

me = 'me_email@localhost'
you = 'me_again_email@localhost'
msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' %fp
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you

s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
s.quit()

I have not configured sendmail and hence it throws an error. But since I just want to test my web service I am not concerned if sendmail cant send an email right now. My service is designed to pulls some records off db and send them an email. So i want to know if this connection, python taking inputs from db and pushing an email is working. I want to receive the email on localhost sent via the script.

回答1:

An SMTP server needs to be configured for sending emails. Sending emails is not possible unless you configure an SMTP server. More information on using python smtplib can be found in pymotw.com, tutorialspoint.com and Python docs.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14951109/send-email-to-localhost-from-localhost-via-python