[Zope] Works on MS Exchange <gasp> Re: [Zope] Fix for lots of MailHost problems! MailHost problems!

[chas]

Stephen, 

This patch works fine with Qmail and, wait for it, MS Exchange :-)
(the latter has been causing problems for me for the past 2 weeks).

I am a very happy man. Thank you !

chas


>I was having lots of trouble with <dtml-sendmail>, and I investigated
>the code for MailHost. Instead of using the excellent smtplib module
>(that ships with Python) to send EMail, the folks at DC decided to write
>their own, using sockets.
>
>The attatched patch replaces 100+ lines of socket-based code with 2 line
>calls to smtplib. I think that this will improve the reliability of
>MailHost dramatically. As a side effect, the timeout and localhost
>properties of MailHosts are gone.
>
>So far, the basic <dtml-sendmail> tag works perfectly. Someone try this
>out and tell me what you think.
>-- 
>Stephen Pitts
>smpitts@midsouth.rr.com
>webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
>
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