A small python script to quickly patch the Google App Engine development server to support TLS over SMTP (required to send emails from your app using a Gmail.com account)
Place fixsmtp.py
into the root of your google_appengine
folder.
Or if the GOOGLE_APP_ENGINE
environmental variable is set, you can run the script from anywhere.
python fixsmtp.py
or
chmod +x fixsmtp.py; ./fixsmtp
python fixsmtp.py undo
or
./fixsmtp undo
Tested on Google App Engine 1.8.1 on Ubuntu 13.04