Problems with headers in email.message

[Tim Williams]

On 04/08/07, Slippy <slippy.lane at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi, python newbie, struggling to learn here. I'm trying to write a
> simple program which posts messages to my google group (via email).
> I'm using smtplib, email and email.message to build and send a
> message, but all the header attributes are appearing in the message
> body, so my messages are arriving with loads of junk in the body, no
> subject line and only the skinniest of headers. I know I'm doing
> something wrong, but I don't know what...
>
> Here's a simplification of what I'm doing....essentially, I've taken
> from what I've learned at
> http://codeidol.com/python/python3/Client-Side-Scripting/pymail-A-Console-Based-Email-Client/
>
> -------------Snip Here-------------Snip Here-------------Snip
> Here-------------
> import smtplib, email
> from email.message import Message
> m = Message( )
> m['From'] = 'Slippy <user at myemail.com>'
> m['To'] = 'mygroup at googlegroups.com'
> m['Subject'] = 'A Test Message'
> m.set_payload('This is a test email. Please ignore')
> s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.myemail.com')
> failed =
> s.sendmail('user at myemail.com','mygroup at googlegroups.com',str(m))
> if failed:
>  print 'Message sending failed.'
> else:
>  print 'Message sent.'
> print 'Bye.'
> -------------Snip Here-------------Snip Here-------------Snip
> Here-------------
>
> Now, I get all the right responses, and the message sends ok. I go and
> check my inbox, and the message is there, but the From, To and Subject
> lines I created (as well as a preceding blank line and a "From nobody"
> line) are in the message body, followed by the body text.
>
> How do I assign values to the header?
>
> I'd appreciate any help anyone can give me with this.

Your script (as posted) works fine for me.

  I did need to change one import line to:  from email.Message import
Message (note the capitalization), but that was all - originally it
stopped the script dead, so it wasn't the cause of your problem.


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Tim Williams