Blog of Andreas Jung, ZOPYX

Zope's MailHost overhauled

Andreas Jung -

Zope's MailHost got a new engine under the hood. The sending and delivery part of MailHost is now based on zope.sendmail. This brings us several advantages:

  • integration with the Zope transaction system (no longer dupe emails in case of conflict errors)
  • TLS/SSL support (if available (requires Python to be compiled with SSL support))
  • optional asynchronous mail delivery using a mail queue and a queue processing thread

With this implementation we should be able to get rid of almost all other MailHost flavours since Zope supports their functionality out-of-the-box.