在公司正想用 svk 把 monodevelop source code 拉回來時，發現有 Can’t locate Time/Progress.pm 訊息，然後就停止運行了。
上 Launchpad 找了一下，發現已經有人回報了：Bug #317487 in svk (Ubuntu): “2.2.1 needs Time::Progress”，後續的回覆裡，也提供了好幾個 workaround，我選擇直接修改 Notify.pm，因為以後 apt-get upgrade 時，新檔案會把舊檔案覆蓋掉。
python twisted sendmail
buildbot 是用 twisted library 裡的 sendmail 寄信的，方法如下：
from email.Message import Message
from twisted.mail.smtp import sendmail
from twisted.internet import defer
from twisted.internet import reactor
m = Message()
m.set_payload("Hello world!!")
m['To']="someone@somewhere.com"
m['Subject'] = "Test"
m['From'] = "my@somewhere.com"
s = m.as_string()
done = sendmail( "mailserver", "my@somewhere.com", [ "someone@somewhere.com" ], s)
done.addCallback(lambda ignored: reactor.stop())
reactor.run()
但現在大多的 mail server 都需要先認證，這時候就得改用 ESMTPSenderFactory 來改寫了(可參考Twisted mail smtp API)，mailing list 裡正好有人貼出程式：
from twisted.mail import smtp from twisted.internet import reactor from twisted.internet import defer try: from cStringIO import StringIO except ImportError: from StringIO import StringIO def sendmail_auth(smtphost, user, password, from_addr, to_addrs, msg, senderDomainName=None, port=25): if not hasattr(msg,'read'): msg = StringIO(str(msg)) d = defer.Deferred() factory = smtp.ESMTPSenderFactory(user, password, from_addr, to_addrs, msg, d, requireTransportSecurity=False) if senderDomainName is not None: factory.domain = senderDomainName reactor.connectTCP(smtphost, port, factory) return d
再套前面的例子，只要改動 sendmail 為 sendmail_auth 就行了：程式：
done = sendmail_auth( "mailserver", "your_username", "your_password", "my@somewhere.com", [ "someone@somewhere.com" ], s)