[Twisted-Python] Sending email asynchronously

[Bob Ippolito]

On Thursday, Feb 6, 2003, at 21:08 America/New_York, Glyph Lefkowitz 
wrote:

>
> On Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:23:06 -0500, Bob Ippolito <bob at redivi.com> wrote:
>
>> I've just committed a modification of sendEmail to do what I want, it 
>> can now
>> send HTML email (with a text/plain fallback) and use 7bit encoding 
>> when it
>> makes sense.  :)
>
> Hmm.  It looks like we are starting to implement a substantial subset 
> of the
> "email" module in Python 2.2.  This is available for 2.1 at
> http://mimelib.sourceforge.net/ .  I would recommend that anyone 
> developing
> Twisted applications that want email integration use that module 
> instead of
> using these features of sendEmail -- I would like to see this code go 
> away.

Adding four lines of code to twisted is a lot easier than 
downloading/learning some other module, don't you think?

As-is, the email module is going to cover a good 95% of stuff you need 
to do when sending mail

-bob