message returned by poplib to email.Messge instance

[Aaron Sterling]

Hi,

   The poplib.POP3.retr() method returns a tuple (size_string, content_list, size_int). The email package provides a 
function message_from_string(string) that returns an object tree describing the string as an rfc2822 message. My 
problem is in how to convert content_list into a string that message_from_string will recognize as a multipart 
message.  What I have so far is 

  msg = email.message_from_string('\n'.join(content_list))

this executes without error. It is a message object but:

>>>  msg.is_multipart()
0

I know it is a properly formatted message, because I made it myself, using email package, and check its validity by:

>>> message.is_multipart()
1

as well as succesfully extracting all of the information I need to from it. I send it over the internet with smtplib. I send it 
directly to my isp's smtp server, as i believe smtplib is supposed to be used.

to do this I use smtplib.SMTP.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, str(message))

I am fairly sure that stringing the message is not causing the problem, as smtplib requires a string and: 

>>> message = email.message_from_string(str(message))
>>> message.is_multipart()
1

any light that could be shed on the issue would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
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Aaron, dhaaron at hotpop.com

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