|  | email.Message problem | | |
| | | Corrado Gioannini |  |
|  Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 2:04 pm Post subject: email.Message problem |  |
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Hi all,
i know i'm probably going to ask a very silly question, but i
can't figure out where i'm doing wrong just reading the docs.
trying to build and send a mail message using the email.* modules
(with python 2.5).
a simplified version of my script that breaks is this:
mailtest.py
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# coding: ISO-8859-15
import os, mimetypes, smtplib, base64, StringIO
import email.message, email.header, email.generator
messg = email.message.Message()
messg.set_charset('ISO-8859-15')
messg['To'] = 'email.x@mydomain'
messg['From'] = 'email.y@mydomain'
messg['Subject'] = email.header.Header("This is a test.", 'ISO-8859-15')
messg["Message-ID"] = email.Utils.make_msgid()
messg["Content-type"] = "Multipart/mixed"
messg.preamble = "Mime test\n"
pl = email.Message.Message()
pl.add_header("Content-type", "text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15")
pl.add_header("Content-transfer-encoding", "8bit")
pl.set_payload("Body text goes here.\n", 'ISO-8859-15')
messg.attach(pl)
messg.as_string()
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running it gives:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "mailtest.py", line 22, in <module>
messg.as_string()
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/message.py", line 131, in as_string
g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten
self._write(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 109, in _write
self._dispatch(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch
meth(msg)
File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 175, in
_handle_text
raise TypeError('string payload expected: %s' % type(payload))
TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'>
the real case is just a little more complex: i have to attach some
files and then send the message with smtplib to a list of recipients.
no problems when attaching files etc., but when i try to get the
message value 'flattened' to pass it to smtplib i always get an error
as above.
it seems to work only if i don't use .attach but just .set_payload in
the main message, but in this case i cannot attach the extra files
(or maybe i'm wrong in this?)
any help (or pointers to docs/examples etc) are very appreciated :-)
10x,
C.
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(B. Aldiss) |
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| | | Gabriel Genellina | |
| | Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:50 pm Post subject: Re: email.Message problem | |
En Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:04:18 -0300, Corrado Gioannini <gioco@nekhem.com> escribió:
| Quote: | Hi all,
i know i'm probably going to ask a very silly question, but i
can't figure out where i'm doing wrong just reading the docs.
trying to build and send a mail message using the email.* modules
(with python 2.5).
a simplified version of my script that breaks is this:
mailtest.py
messg = email.message.Message()
|
Replace this line with:
messg = email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart()
*OR*
Set the Content-Type header to "multipart/mixed" *before* anything else.
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Gabriel Genellina |
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| | | Corrado Gioannini | |
| | Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: Re: email.Message problem | |
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
| Quote: | messg = email.message.Message()
Replace this line with:
messg = email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart()
*OR*
Set the Content-Type header to "multipart/mixed" *before* anything else.
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thanks Gabriel!
i coudn't have thought that setting the header in a different order
could affect the as_string method. i'll take a look at the code. :)
c.
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no, sono sempre io, non mi cambierete quel che ho dentro
forse ho solo un'altra faccia
ho più cicatrici di prima, sorrido un po' meno,
forse penso di più.
(Kina) |
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| | | Gabriel Genellina | |
| | Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 1:11 am Post subject: Re: email.Message problem | |
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En Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:36:30 -0300, Corrado Gioannini <gioco@nekhem.com>
escribi�:
| Quote: | On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 04:50:15PM -0300, Gabriel Genellina wrote:
messg = email.message.Message()
Replace this line with:
messg = email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart()
*OR*
Set the Content-Type header to "multipart/mixed" *before* anything else.
thanks Gabriel!
i coudn't have thought that setting the header in a different order
could affect the as_string method. i'll take a look at the code. 
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Yes. This is the offending sequence:
messg = email.message.Message()
messg.set_charset('ISO-8859-15')
messg["Content-type"] = "Multipart/mixed"
"Charset" is not a header by itself; it is an optional parameter of the
Content-Type header. When you call set_charset(), a default 'Content-Type:
text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15"' header is added. Later, you *add* a new
Content-type header -- remember that the [] notation *appends* a new
header instead of replacing an existing one (yes, it is somewhat
confusing...)
Your message ends up being text/plain, not multiplart as intended.
It's better to be explicit and use the email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart
class.
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Gabriel Genellina |
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