You could also try gigablast but they're not really pro-free speech, just different answers than Google

@ThisIsChris How do I use a local email server?

server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)

Do I just put 'localhost', 25 in here?

would it be better to just use gmail's server?

it is better to use gmails, just make sure to go to your gmail account security settings and enable the "allow 3rd party apps" option

server.login("youremailusername", "password")

do I just put my email address and password here?

or is there some special server log in?

@ThisIsChris

yep that's it. I forget if you put in email address or just username, try both

@Jacob I checked, username should be the full email-address, the port should be 25, the host is smtp.gmail.com

thanks

https://www.pythonforbeginners.com/code-snippets-source-code/using-python-to-send-email

this example uses 587 as the port

maybe I'll try both

@ThisIsChris
```
smtplib.SMTPNotSupportedError: SMTP AUTH extension not supported by server.
```

I checked "allow less secure apps"

@Jacob https://stackoverflow.com/a/37224235/5834035

@Jacob also this https://stackoverflow.com/a/10147497/5834035

Thanks

okay I got the email server to send out emails

just test emails so far, but we're making progress

yeah sounds awesome!

my next step should be to figure out a way to accumulate a list of posts, and send out an email once it reaches a certain threshold

right now it just spams me every time it finds a comment lol

So, this is the idea I have so far:
> Automate the script to start up once a day
> Scan Reddit for pro-immigration comments until it reaches a certain threshold
> Send out an email with all the comments plus recommended counterarguments for me to copy paste
> Script automatically shuts down after sending out the email to be restarted the next day at a set time

Once this program is finished, it's going to be peak weaponized autism

that's great!

@ThisIsChris we have a weird problem

the emails don't send if they have a link in them

```
for comment in interesting_comments(request.json()):
if comment not in printed:
print('')
#on some computers printing \a is an escape
#sequence that produces a ding sound
print('\a\a\a', flush=True)
#for interesting comments found
#print out a link
#print out the subreddit it was found in
#print out what the comment says
message = comment['permalink'] \
+ '\n' \
+ '\n' \
+ comment['body']
server.sendmail("[email protected]", "email censored pls no dox", message)
server.sendmail("[email protected]", "email censored pls no dox", message)
printed.append(comment)
```

sends fine

```
for comment in interesting_comments(request.json()):
if comment not in printed:
print('')
#on some computers printing \a is an escape
#sequence that produces a ding sound
print('\a\a\a', flush=True)
#for interesting comments found
#print out a link
#print out the subreddit it was found in
#print out what the comment says
message = "Reddit.com" + comment['permalink'] \
+ '\n' \
+ '\n' \
+ comment['body']
server.sendmail("[email protected]", "email censored pls no dox", message)
server.sendmail("[email protected]", "email censored pls no dox", message)
printed.append(comment)
```

no longer sends

I don't think this library has email subjects

it's the really basic one

@ThisIsChris perhaps we have some Python experts in IE who could help with this project?

<@&435155896780324864> Is anyone here a Python expert?

@Jacob An expert is not going to know the answer to every question about every library off the top of their head, but a lot of these questions can be answered by googling and checking the documentation or stack overflow which are usually the first results.

good point

now I feel like one of those boomers that asks their grandkids how to close a dialog box