Auto suffix adding on email authentication - why?

[oernster]

With this code:

import yagmail

def send_email():
"""Send an email"""
yag = yagmail.SMTP(user='user@mycompany.com', password='password',
host='mail.mycompany.com', port=587,
smtp_starttls = False, smtp_skip_login = True) # also tried port 25

attachments = []
yag.send('user@mycompany.com', 'Some text', ['The content of the email'], attachments)

if name == 'main':
send_email()

I see the error:
smtplib.SMTPSenderRefused: (501, b'5.1.7 Invalid address', '@gmail.com')

Why is it adding @gmail.com when I choose to smtp_skip_login? I simply want to avoid all authentication, gmail is not relevant here.

[oernster]

My apologies, it appears that @nfg has raised the same issue and explained it better to boot.

[kootenpv]

@oernster Thanks for raising an issue. Are you saying something misses then from the documentation to make it clearer? I could add something if needed. Or you could make a pull request.

[oernster]

I tried pulling the fix to #53 and my problems went away. I did look into the code and was confused by the very same lines of code that nfg noted but it seems you guys have been discussing and dealing with the issue so I'm happy with the current state of affairs. Thanks for responding. It might be worth documenting use cases for the flags in yagmail.SMTP(...) though.