Mail Relays using python

June 6, 2013 by 1 Comment

I recently needed to send e-mail from my home computer in a python script. Unfortunately I use Comcast and they have decided that anyone that does this is a spammer so they have blocked all outbound communication over port 25. Big thanks to Lars for pointing me in the right direction!

In order to get around this both gmail and godaddy provide relay services.

Here is the solution:
Create the message

sender = 'ghoti@cultureofqualityengineering.com' #you will need to use your email of course
password = 'MyPassword'
receiver = #submitted email address

message = """From: Geoff <""" + sender + """>
To: To Person <""" + email + """>
Subject: Kapow!
Hey thanks for using this service!
and other interesting text
"""

Send the message

try:
  #session = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587) #for gmail uncomment this
  #session = smtplib.SMTP_SSL('smtpout.secureserver.net',465) #for godaddy uncomment this line
  session.ehlo()
  #session.starttls() #uncomment for gmail
  #session.ehlo() #uncomment for gmail
  session.login(sender, password)
  session.sendmail(sender,receiver,message)
  session.quit()
except smtplib.SMTPException:
  print "Error: unable to send email"

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How to submit adhoc Graphite data

December 5, 2012 by Leave a comment

Python

import socket
host = ‘graphite.server.com’
port = 2003
sock = socket.socket()
sock.connect((host,port))
sock.send(data)
sock.close()
Perl
use IO::Socket::INET;
my $sock = new IO::Socket::INET( PeerAddr => ‘graphite.server.com’, PeerPort => ‘2003’, Proto => ‘tcp’);
$sock or die “no socket: $!”;
$sock->send($data);
close($sock);
Where data is
metric.name.object value epochtimestamp (newline)
metric.name.object2 value epochtimestamp (newline)
and that 2 values sent within the same precision will overwrite with the most recent one.
I.E. If your precision is 1 minute and you send
thing.one.count 5 1354216764
And 10 sec later
thing.one.count 2 1354216774
Graphite will report 2 for 1:19 on the day I wrote this (as opposed to 7).
Remember to reach out to your friendly graphite admin before sending any data

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