smtplib - missing message

[alastair]

Hi,

I'm trying to send an email using smtplib and a Yahoo smtp server.
I've read that this uses authentication, so in order to use
'smtp.mail.yaho o.com' as the host, I use the login() method, and this
works fine (ie I login ok) . When I look at the received mail, the
text I send is not there - does anyone know why this is the case ?

Here's the code I've been using:

import smtplib

server = smtplib.SMTP("s mtp.mail.yahoo. com")
server.debuglev el = 25
server.login("m yusername", "mypassword ")

fromClause = "me@me.com"
toClause = "you@yahoo.co.u k"

msg = "Please display me."

server.sendmail (fromClause, toClause, msg)

server.quit()

Regards,

Alastair.

[Peter Hansen]

Re: smtplib - missing message

alastair wrote:
[color=blue]
> I'm trying to send an email using smtplib ....
> When I look at the received mail, the
> text I send is not there - does anyone know why this is the case ?
>
> Here's the code I've been using:
> fromClause = "me@me.com"
> toClause = "you@yahoo.co.u k"
>
> msg = "Please display me."
>
> server.sendmail (fromClause, toClause, msg)[/color]

RFC2822 (or whatever it is) specifies that a mail message has
headers, separated from the body of the message by an extra
newline. (Or is it a CRLF combination? You can look that up
yourself.) You don't have any header in your message, so
you'll have to add one, something like:

msg = "Subject: test\n\nPlease display me."

Note the double newline to mark the end of the header fields.

-Peter

[Mathias Waack]

Re: smtplib - missing message

Peter Hansen wrote:
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> msg = "Subject: test\n\nPlease display me."[/color]

Better use the mime classes from package "email":

msg = MIMEText("Pleas e display me.").as_string ()

Mathias

[alastair]

Re: smtplib - missing message

Peter - thanks for the information, this did the trick !

Matthias - thanks for pointing out the email module - I'm pretty new
to Python and hadn't discovered it, this'll come in real handy.

Thanks again guys,

Cheers,

Alastair.