[Tutor] SMTPLIB module - how to add subject ?
Sheila King
sheila at spamcop.net
Sat Sep 15 17:05:40 EDT 2001
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 22:45:18 +0200, "A" <printers at sendme.cz> wrote
about [Tutor] SMTPLIB module - how to add subject ?:
:Hi,
:I tried
:11.11.2 SMTP Example from Python docs.
:Does anyone know how I can add subject to an email send by this example?
:Thank you very much for help
:Ladislav
I've pasted the example below. Actually, I really dislike this example.
They are using
"\r\n"
as a character for newlines. Whose idea was that???
It should be just
"\n"
Below this sample code I've pasted some suggested mods:
import smtplib
import string
def prompt(prompt):
return raw_input(prompt).strip()
fromaddr = prompt("From: ")
toaddrs = prompt("To: ").split()
print "Enter message, end with ^D:"
# Add the From: and To: headers at the start!
msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\n\r\n"
% (fromaddr, string.join(toaddrs, ", ")))
while 1:
try:
line = raw_input()
except EOFError:
break
if not line:
break
msg = msg + line
print "Message length is " + `len(msg)`
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddrs, msg)
server.quit()
Suggested mods:
Add a line that prompts for the subject:
subj = prompt("Subject: ")
Then change this line:
msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\n\r\n"
% (fromaddr, string.join(toaddrs, ", ")))
To something like this:
msg = ("From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject:%s\r\n\r\n"
% (fromaddr, string.join(toaddrs, ", "), subj))
Caution! untested, but should work.
I still don't like the "\r\n" in this example. Bad. :(
--
Sheila King
http://www.thinkspot.net/sheila/
http://www.k12groups.org/
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