Testing Mail Delivery

Writing Directly to SMTP Server

# telnet 127.0.0.1 25
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
220 localhost.localdomain ESMTP Postfix (Debian/GNU)
EHLO mail.xxx.com.au
250-localhost.localdomain
250-PIPELINING
250-SIZE 67108864
250-VRFY
250-ETRN
250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
250-AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN
250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
250-8BITMIME
250 DSN
MAIL From:<yyy@yyy.com.au>
250 2.1.0 Ok
RCPT To:<xxx@xxx.com.au>
250 2.1.5 Ok
DATA
354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>
Subject: xxxxx
blah blah blah
.
250 2.0.0 Ok: queued as 8AFD1E4488
QUIT
221 2.0.0 Bye
Connection closed by foreign host.
# 

Using Python Scipts

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
#  $Id:$
#
#---------------------------------------------------------------------

import smtplib

#---------------------------------------------------------------------

debugLvl = 2

host     = "mail.xyzzy.net"
fromaddr = "xxx@xxx.com.au"
toaddr   = "yyy@xyzzy.net"

MSG = """\
From: %s
To: %s
Subject: Subject

This is a new message
"""

#---------------------------------------------------------------------

msg = MSG % (fromaddr, toaddr)

print "Message length is %d" % len(msg)

server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
server.set_debuglevel(debugLvl)
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, msg)
server.quit()

#---------------------------------------------------------------------