Problem with smtplib: message vanishes

Gregor Lingl glingl at aon.at
Fri Apr 20 19:15:44 EDT 2001


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.
But when trying to open it in Netscape-Messenger, I can see,
that I received it nut I get something like

Betreff: python-mehl2
 Datum:  Sat Apr 21 00:11:43 2001
    Von: lingl at aon.at
     An: glingl at aon.at

... 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>
Delivered-To: glingl at aon.at
Received: (qmail 3793630 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2001 22:11:45
-0000
Received: from n408p010.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO INTERNET-WS)
([213.33.50.234]) (envelope-sender <lingl at aon.at>)
          by qmail4.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
          for <glingl at aon.at>; 20 Apr 2001 22:11:45 -0000
From: lingl at aon.at
To: glingl at aon.at
Date: Sat Apr 21 00:11:43 2001
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


..... which contains the message-text, which nevertheless is
not displayed in the email-client-window.
Perhaps the last three lines are the offending ones, because
comparing the python-sent to normal emails, i find those lines before
the message.
Or something else is going wrong.

How could I use the sendmail-method correctly?

... asks a little bit desparately
Gregor Lingl




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