[Tutor] Sending Mail

[Kent Johnson]

On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Stephen Nelson-Smith <sanelson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> smtpserver = 'relay.clara.net'
>
> RECIPIENTS = ['sanelson at gmail.com']
> SENDER = 'alerts at atalanta-systems.com'
> message = """Subject: HTTPD ALERT: %s requests %s connections
> Please investigate ASAP.""" % (rps, connections)
>
> This sends emails....
>
> But gmail says it came from "unknown sender"


You have to include the From and To headers in the message body as well as
passing them to sendmail(). See the example here:
http://docs.python.org/lib/SMTP-example.html

Kent
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