[Tutor] imaplib append() question

[Magnus Lycka]

At 11:50 2002-09-15 +0000, Kyle Babich wrote:
>I'm trying to use imaplib's append() to upload messages locally to an
>IMAP server.  The files are .eml's and .txt's.  The guy who runs the
>server told me that it seperates the header from the body with two
>newlines, but no matter how I go about this I still get the same
>response from the server: ('NO', ['Message has no header/body
>separator']).  I think my problem is that I am representing the two
>newlines incorrectly and that is where I need help.  I've tried opening
>the files in notepad and hitting the enter twice where the header of
>the mails meets the body and I've tried using \n\n but I still get the
>same message.  What am I doing wrong?

\r\n\r\n perhaps?

 From RFC 1730:
"All interactions transmitted by client and server are in the form of
lines; that is, strings that end with a CRLF."

See:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1730.txt IMAP 4
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt Internet Message Format




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