find_web2py_smtp_settings.py

'''
Place this in a controller and call it, either by url or directly from code.
An email(or multiple) with the correct settings will be sent to the 
test address.
'''
def test_mail():
    bases = ['yourdomain.com', 'yourhosting.company.net']
    prefixes = ['smtp.', 'mail.', '']
    ports = [':25' ':465', ':993', ':587', '']
    sender = 'someone@yourdomain.com'
    login = 'someone@yourdomain.com:password'
    send_test_to = 'probably.you@gmail.com'
    count = 0
    mail.settings.tls = True #Here so you can set to False if things fail?
    for base in bases:
        for prefix in prefixes:
            for port in ports:
                server = '{0}{1}{2}'.format(prefix, base, port)
                  msg = 'server: {0} login: {1}'.format(server, login)
                  # So you can correlate with error codes. Note some servers don't like print!
                  print msg
                  mail.settings.server = server
                  mail.settings.sender = sender
                  mail.settings.login = login
                  mail.send(to=[send_test_to],
                        subject='hello',
                        reply_to='us@example.com',
                        message=msg
                        )
                  count += 1
    return dict(message="tried {0} combinations".format(count))