[Tutor] email content-type: text/plain

[Chris Hengge]

I would start by "forcing" 'text/plain'.
If that doesn't work maybe take a look at:
*set_type*( type[, header][, requote]) Set the main type and subtype for the
Content-Type: header. type must be a string in the form maintype/subtype,
otherwise a ValueError is raised.

This method replaces the Content-Type: header, keeping all the parameters in
place. If requote is False, this leaves the existing header's quoting as is,
otherwise the parameters will be quoted (the default).

An alternative header can be specified in the header argument. When the
Content-Type: header is set a MIME-Version: header is also added.

New in version 2.2.2.
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Just out of curiosity, have you tested your message?
msg = MIMEText(message)
print get_content_type(message)

or:

msg = MIMEText(message, 'plain/text')
print get_content_type(message)
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I'm just tossing out idea's for things I would try. I've not actually used
this module yet.


On 11/16/06, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> use  MIMEText(message, 'someTypeThatIsn'tPlain')  ? but type/plain is what
> i am after.
> i am a bit confused here. It defaults to plain, but there is not anything
> in the message headers that say what type it is. Should i use
> MIMEText(message, 'text/plain') ?
>
> thanks
> sk
>
> On 11/16/06, Chris Hengge <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Not sure if I'm really helping, but I want to try for all the help I've
> > gotten...
> > I took this from: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.message.html
> >
> > ##############################################################################
> > *class  MIMEText*( _text[, _subtype[, _charset]]) Module:
> > email.mime.text
> >
> > A subclass of MIMENonMultipart, the MIMEText class is used to create
> > MIME objects of major type text. _text is the string for the payload.
> > _subtype is the minor type and defaults to plain. _charset is the
> > character set of the text and is passed as a parameter to the
> > MIMENonMultipart constructor; it defaults to us-ascii. No guessing or
> > encoding is performed on the text data.
> >
> >
> > #############################################################################
> >
> > Going off this, I'd say you need to change:
> >
> > msg = MIMEText(message)
> >
> > to:
> >
> > msg = MIMEText(message, 'someTypeThatIsn'tPlain')
> > On 11/16/06, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com > wrote:
> > >
> > > hey there all,
> > > i am using the email package and the phone provider i am trying to get
> > > a text message thru has sent me an email that says that they are looking for
> > > a tag that says 'content-type text/plain'
> > >
> > > i have tried about everything i can think of to get it in there, but
> > > everything i have tried has failed.
> > >
> > > here is what i have so far:
> > > address = 'someplace at someplace.com'
> > > message = 'some text that needs to be delivered via text message'
> > > msg = MIMEText(message)
> > > msg['Subject'] = 'pivots'
> > > msg['From'] = 'l11 at xit.net'
> > > msg['To'] = address
> > > server.sendmail(msg['From'],msg['To'], msg.as_string())
> > >
> > > any ideas ?
> > > thanks
> > >
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