Python Email Send

Simple email test from python

import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
f = "no-reply@example.com"
t = "joe@example.com"
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
msg = MIMEText("this is a test")
msg["Subject"] = "This is a test - ignore"
msg["To"] = t
msg["From"] = f
s.sendmail(f, [t], msg.as_string())

Host a Test email server for Django header debugging

Set the following in settings.py
EMAIL_HOST="localhost"
EMAIL_PORT="1025"

Run the following to host the test webserver

python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/email/ 

Sendmail/Postfix Info

Sendmail view mailq:
mailq
sendmail -bp

Sendmail view verbose info:
sendmail -v

Postfix flush mail queue:
sudo postfix flush
sudo postfix -f

Remove all mail in queue: 
sudo postsuper -d ALL

Remove all mail in deferred queue: 
sudo postsuper -d ALL deferred

Postfix Info
http://www.akadia.com/services/postfix_mta.html

http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-postfix-flush-mail-queue.html
http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/networking/tcpip/ch10_08.htm
http://shinphp.blogspot.com/2011/09/ubuntu-clean-sendmail-queue.html