To: bryan@zoesis.com
From: jch@jch.com
Subject: Your wish is my suggestion

python roolz!

http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/article.php?story=20040822174141155

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This concludes our test.
Fini. well almost...

<terminal to play with> =================

python $ python
Python 2.3 (#1, Sep 13 2003, 00:49:11) 
[GCC 3.3 20030304 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 1495)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import smtplib
session = smtplib.SMTP('mail.mindspring.com')
RECIPIENTS = ['jch@jch.com']         
SENDER = 'jch@jch.com'
>>> >>> >>> >>> 
>>> mssg = open('mssg.txt', 'r').read()
>>> smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)
>>> print smtpresult
{}
>>> print smtpresult.keys()
[]
>>> ^D
python $ 

< un adulterated commands >

import smtplib
session = smtplib.SMTP('mail.mindspring.com')
RECIPIENTS = ['jch@jch.com']         
SENDER = 'jch@jch.com'
mssg = open('mssg.txt', 'r').read()
smtpresult = session.sendmail(SENDER, RECIPIENTS, mssg)


Well, this is the nuts & bolts approach I would take.

YON