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Message: [QUOTE="Cameron Laird, post: 1769278"] . . . No, you don't. If anything, as Grant Edwards points out elsewhere in this thread you need SMTP *client* code--which is easy enough in Python. I do this--emitting e-mail from my applications by direct connection to the e-mail server of addressee--often. It's modestly hazardous, in that one either makes the cheerful assumption that the server will be accessible, OR one starts to build the re-try queues that head one down the slippery slope to re-creation of sendmail. There are still other possibilities, by the way; one can, for example, ahve the Python application connect by way of SMTP to a server one controls that happens not to be on the host of the Python application. I summarize: yes, it's almost certainly possible, in some sense; you'll want to specify your situation more precisely before starting to write code. [/QUOTE]