subject with smtplib?

[Jeff Sandys]

Can you include a subject with sendmail using smtplib?

When I do this (names changed to protect the innocent):

import smtplib
toadr = "me@myisp.c om"
frmadr = "myhost@myhost. com"
msg = "this is an important message."
server = smtplib.SMTP('l ocalhost')
server.sendmail (frmadr, toadr, msg)
server.quit()

I get the important message with a blank subject line.
It would be really useful to add a subject line,

sub = "important message"
server.sendmail (frmadr, toadr, msg, subject=sub)

I've looked through the documentation and see that
there is a mail_options but haven't found anything
about adding a subject.

Thanks,
Jeff Sandys

[Dennis Lee Bieber]

Re: subject with smtplib?

On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 23:15:17 GMT, Jeff Sandys <sandysj@juno.c om>
declaimed the following in comp.lang.pytho n:
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> Can you include a subject with sendmail using smtplib?
>
> When I do this (names changed to protect the innocent):
>
> import smtplib
> toadr = "me@myisp.c om"
> frmadr = "myhost@myhost. com"[/color]

These lines only define the handshaking done with the SMTPd.
They do not define the "to:" and "from:" headers of most email.
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> msg = "this is an important message."[/color]

msg should include the ENTIRE message, including the headers
that you expect the receiver to view...


Look at it this way:

"""
Date: a long time ago
From: a.figment@your. imagination
To: some.unknown.pe rson@a.fictitio us.domain
Subject: This is junk mail

Free samples of drug of your choice
"""

is the "letter"... "From" is the sender address (corporate letterhead),
"To" is the /inside address/ (look at any book on formatting business
letters).

The "frmadr" and "toadr" are the addresses you put on the
outside of the envelope -- and don't even have to match what is on the
inside (this is how BCC: works -- the sending program puts the BCC:
addresses into "toadr" [the envelopes], and then removes the BCC: from
the letter itself so they don't show).

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