How to define a name of attachment in email with python ?

[Peter Hansen]

fowlertrainer at anonym.hu wrote:

> I want to set the name of the attachment in an python-generated email.
> 
> This is needed, because the another site we want to get this name, and 
> repack the attachments by name (an ID).
> 
> Some programming languges (components) are allow to set this.
> (See Delphi/Indy/MessagePart)
> 
>       fp=open(plist[i], 'rb')
>       mdata=MIMEAudio(fp.read(),'mpeg')
>       fp.close()
>       msg.attach(mdata)
>       ???? msg['filename']='xxx'
> 
> Can anyone help in this problem ?

Yes, read the manual: the online documentation of the email
module has some examples.  The last example shows how to set
the filename (using msg.add_header() to set the Content-
Disposition header).

-Peter