Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Dwight Hutto
Why don't you ask the university to setup a password protection on port 587 to allow access to specific users, and then they can monitor the incoming/outgoing connections identified by the user name? As well as encryption known by the university to monitor activity on other levels. -- Best Rega

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 3:27 PM, ashish makani wrote: > Marc, > your 3rd point, > >> you could establish a VPN tunnel to some server outside of the >> university's network and send from port 587 on THAT machine. Complicated, >> weird, and not horribly secure. But doable. > > Could you point me t

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/11/2012 2:44 PM ashish makani said... Emile, Please don't presume people's intentions (that we are sending spam) & judge people without knowing anything about them. I made no such presumption -- I appluad the university for taking appropriate actions to reduce the spread of spam. Perhaps

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread ashish makani
Walter, Marc, Thanks for your helpful suggestions & super quick replies. As a noobie, i often run into brick walls, thinking something(problem i am stuck at) is not possible to do in python. I love struggling against that problem & figuring a way out. I have posted to the tutor mailing list in t

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Marc Tompkins
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 2:44 PM, ashish makani wrote: > Folks, > > some more context so people presume we are spammers :) > > These emails are automated diagnostic emails sent to a group of a few > admins, so we get notified when a python heartbeat script, detects a > failure in things like n/w co

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Walter Prins
Hi Ashish, On 11 September 2012 22:44, ashish makani wrote: > These emails are automated diagnostic emails sent to a group of a few > admins, so we get notified when a python heartbeat script, detects a failure > in things like n/w connectivity, router status, etc. > We dont use university email,

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread ashish makani
Folks, some more context so people presume we are spammers :) These emails are automated diagnostic emails sent to a group of a few admins, so we get notified when a python heartbeat script, detects a failure in things like n/w connectivity, router status, etc. We dont use university email, we us

Re: [Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread Emile van Sebille
On 9/11/2012 2:19 PM ashish makani said... Hi Python Tutor folks I am stuck with an issue, so am coming to the Pythonistas who rescue me everytime :) I am trying to send out email programmatically, from a gmail a/c, using smtplib, using the following chunk of code (b/w [ & ] below) [ import s

[Tutor] How to send email from a gmail a/c using smtp when port 587(smtp) is blocked

2012-09-11 Thread ashish makani
Hi Python Tutor folks I am stuck with an issue, so am coming to the Pythonistas who rescue me everytime :) I am trying to send out email programmatically, from a gmail a/c, using smtplib, using the following chunk of code (b/w [ & ] below) [ import smtplib from email.mime.text import MIMEText