Problem with smtplib: message vanishes

[Matthew Dixon Cowles]

On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:15:44 +0200, Gregor Lingl <glingl at aon.at>
wrote:

>I've got the following problem:
>
>Using smtplib as discribed in the documentation and also in Lutz'
>Programming Python to send emails, I'm able to send mails without
>error messages.

[. . .]

>... which means: the message-text is missing completely.

>When looking at the 'source-code' of the message, I find:

>Message-ID: <md5:109854F5E892C61A892F988123CB0A00>
>Return-Path: <lingl at aon.at>
[. . .] 
>Subject: python-mehl2
>Vielleicht geht's so!
>probieren wirs's aus
>Grüße
>Gregor
>X-Mozilla-Status: 0000
>X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
>X-UIDL: 987804705.4637304.SSP1NO49,S=520

Gregor,
You need a blank line after your headers. It looks like your script
creates at least some of the headers in the message (the subject line
for example). RFC822 specifies a blank line between the end of a
message's headers and the beginning of the body. Since it seems that
your script doesn't add the blank line, Netscape adds its own headers
at the bottom.

Regards,
Matt