From Harvey.West at bskyb.com  Thu Nov 29 14:03:15 2007
From: Harvey.West at bskyb.com (West, Harvey)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:03:15 -0000
Subject: [Email-SIG] Certain charaters in the body stop mail from arriving.
	Why?
Message-ID: <1CB3316B4E8AC044BEA28649F3916FF70174E5F5@OSTEXCH03.bskyb.com>

Hello

 

Sending mail with certain characters in the body causes mail never to
arrive. Why? 

e.g if body text has a fullstop "." mail never arrives.

 

I'm using python 4.2 on windows.

 

 

Harv

 

 

 

 

import smtplib

from   email.MIMEText import MIMEText

 

 

def mail(serverURL=None, sender='', to='', subject='', text=''):

    COMMASPACE = ', '

    to = COMMASPACE.join(to)

 

    msg = MIMEText(text)

    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg['From'] = sender

    msg['To'] = to

    

    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP(serverURL, 25)

    mailServer.sendmail(sender, to, msg.as_string())

    mailServer.quit()

    

    print msg.as_string()

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Output ----

 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

MIME-Version: 1.0

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Subject: "Information from ost-cs-emma"

From: test at bskybb.com

To: test at bskybb.com

 

Some text

Some more text in body

________________________________________________________________________
___________

Harvey West | Technical support - BSkyB Sky Creative  | ph 020 7805 8591
| http://www.sky.com <http://www.sky.com/> 

 




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From mark at msapiro.net  Thu Nov 29 16:46:15 2007
From: mark at msapiro.net (Mark Sapiro)
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:46:15 -0800
Subject: [Email-SIG] Certain charaters in the body stop mail from
 arriving. Why?
In-Reply-To: <1CB3316B4E8AC044BEA28649F3916FF70174E5F5@OSTEXCH03.bskyb.com>
References: <1CB3316B4E8AC044BEA28649F3916FF70174E5F5@OSTEXCH03.bskyb.com>
Message-ID: <474EDEC7.80207@msapiro.net>

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West, Harvey wrote:
> 
> Sending mail with certain characters in the body causes mail never to
> arrive. Why? 
> e.g if body text has a fullstop "." mail never arrives.
>  
> I'm using python 4.2 on windows.


WFM - Python 2.4.2 - Windows XP


mailit.py--------------------------------------------------------------
import smtplib
from   email.MIMEText import MIMEText


def mail(serverURL=None, sender='', to='', subject='', text=''):
    COMMASPACE = ', '
    to = COMMASPACE.join(to)

    msg = MIMEText(text)
    msg['Subject'] = subject
    msg['From'] = sender
    msg['To'] = to

    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP(serverURL, 25)
    mailServer.sendmail(sender, to, msg.as_string())
    mailServer.quit()

    print msg.as_string()


sender = 'msapiro at msapiro.net'
to = ['msapiro at value.net']
subject = 'Test Message'
text = """This is the message body.
It contains full stop.
And other punctuation,/'- and some more text.
"""
server = 'localhost'

mail(server, sender, to, subject, text)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Test------------------------------------------------------------------
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop>python mailit.py
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Test Message
From: msapiro at msapiro.net
To: msapiro at value.net

This is the message body.
It contains full stop.
And other punctuation,/'- and some more text.


C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop>
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Received mail-----------------------------------------------------------
<some Received: headers snipped>
Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=[192.168.0.4])
	by msapiro.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62)
	(envelope-from <msapiro at msapiro.net>)
	id JS9XHD-0001A4-MX
	for msapiro at value.net; Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:24:49 -0800
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Subject: Test Message
From: msapiro at msapiro.net
To: msapiro at value.net
<X-pstn-* Postini headers snipped>
Message-Id: <20071129082455.SM02600 at psmtp.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 08:24:51 -0700
X-GPC-MailScanner: Found to be clean
X-GPC-MailScanner-From: msapiro at msapiro.net
X-Spam-Status: No

This is the message body.
It contains full stop.
And other punctuation,/'- and some more text.
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------

- --
Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net>        The highway is for gamblers,
San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan

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