Mail not setting timestamp

[Lorenzo Thurman]

I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
can't find anything that would allow me to manually set it. Can someone
help me out?
TIA

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Mail not setting timestamp

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
can't find anything that would allow me to manually set it. Can someone
help me out?

The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject...
message.add_hea der("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300")

--
Gabriel Genellina

[Lorenzo Thurman]

Re: Mail not setting timestamp

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
>

>I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
>They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
>have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
>can't find anything that would allow me to manually set it. Can someone
>help me out?

>
The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject...
message.add_hea der("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300")
>
--
Gabriel Genellina
>

Thanks for the reply. When I try this though, I get an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "./synctest.py", line 202, in ?
message = createhtmlmail( html, text, subject)
File "./synctest.py", line 49, in createhtmlmail
writer.addheade r("Date", theDate)
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/MimeWriter.py", line 100, in addheader
lines = value.split("\n ")
AttributeError: 'datetime.datet ime' object has no attribute 'split'

I'm trying to use a variable for the date, since of course, it should
always be 'now'.
someDate = datetime.dateti me.now()
writer.addheade r("Date", someDate)
Hard coding a date, like your example, works just fine.
Any ideas?

[Gabriel Genellina]

Re: Mail not setting timestamp

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
>

The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject...
message.add_hea der("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300")

Thanks for the reply. When I try this though, I get an error:
AttributeError: 'datetime.datet ime' object has no attribute 'split'
I'm trying to use a variable for the date, since of course, it should
always be 'now'.

You have to convert the date into a string, using the right format.
The docs for the time module have a recipe:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html

(look for RFC 2822)

--
Gabriel Genellina

[Lorenzo Thurman]

Re: Mail not setting timestamp

Gabriel Genellina wrote:

Lorenzo Thurman wrote:

>Gabriel Genellina wrote:

>>Lorenzo Thurman wrote:
>>>
>>>I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages.
>>>They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always
>>>have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and
>>>>
>>The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject...
>>message.add_h eader("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300")
>>>

>Thanks for the reply. When I try this though, I get an error:
>AttributeError : 'datetime.datet ime' object has no attribute 'split'
>I'm trying to use a variable for the date, since of course, it should
>always be 'now'.

>
You have to convert the date into a string, using the right format.
The docs for the time module have a recipe:

http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html

(look for RFC 2822)
>
--
Gabriel Genellina
>

Got it!
thx