This mail never gets delivered. Any ideas why?

[Thomas Rachel]

Am 10.03.2013 19:39 schrieb Νίκος Γκρ33κ:
> Hey man  this worked via Python!

[...]

> 		if( os.system( 'echo "%s" | mail -s "%s" support at superhost.gr' % (MESSAGE, FROM) ) ):

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> Thank you! I beleive this is the simplest way of sending an email!

Until you get a MESSAGE which has a " sign in it, or a FROM.

(Sorry, didn't see this message before.)

In order to prevent trouble with this, it might be better to use 
subprocess and to do

sp = subprocess.Popen(['mail', '-f', FROM, '-s', SUBJECT,
     'support at superhost.gr], stdin=subprocess.PIPE)
sp.communicate(MESSAGE)
res = sp.wait()
if res:
     ...
else:
     ...


If you do so, you can have FROMs, SUBJECTs and MESSAGEs conaining every 
character you want, including " and ', an no shell will complain about 
it or be confused.

(Note that I changed the arguments for mail a little bit, because -s 
prevedes the subject and -f the from.)


Thomas