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Problem with smtplib: message vanishes

Sheila King sheila at spamcop.net
Fri Apr 20 19:29:46 EDT 2001 
When you compose your message to send, make sure there is a blank line between
the message headers and the message body.

Based on what you report here, it looks to me like you're missing that blank
line.

Example:

>>> import smtplib
>>> To = "sheila at spamcop.net"
>>> From ="nobody at spamcop.net"
>>> Message ='''\
... To: sheila at spamcop.net
... From: nobody at spamcop.net
... Subject: Schoene Gruesse aus Kalifornien
... 
... Hier ist das Koerper des Mails.
... Forgive the bad German (oops!).
... Ende.'''
>>> server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
>>> server.sendmail(From, To, Message)
{}
>>> server.quit()
>>> 

Notice the blank line between the subject and the message body.

HTH
--
Sheila King
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On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:15:44 +0200, Gregor Lingl <glingl at aon.at> wrote in
comp.lang.python in article <3AE0C320.B7D92F7C at aon.at>:

:I've got the following problem:
:
:Using smtplib as discribed in the documentation and also in Lutz'
:Programming Python to send emails, I'm able to send mails without
:error messages.
:But when trying to open it in Netscape-Messenger, I can see,
:that I received it nut I get something like
:
:Betreff: python-mehl2
: Datum:  Sat Apr 21 00:11:43 2001
:    Von: lingl at aon.at
:     An: glingl at aon.at
:
:... which means: the message-text is missing completely.
:
:When looking at the 'source-code' of the message, I find:
:
:Message-ID: <md5:109854F5E892C61A892F988123CB0A00>
:Return-Path: <lingl at aon.at>
:Delivered-To: glingl at aon.at
:Received: (qmail 3793630 invoked from network); 20 Apr 2001 22:11:45
:-0000
:Received: from n408p010.adsl.highway.telekom.at (HELO INTERNET-WS)
:([213.33.50.234]) (envelope-sender <lingl at aon.at>)
:          by qmail4.highway.telekom.at (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP
:          for <glingl at aon.at>; 20 Apr 2001 22:11:45 -0000
:From: lingl at aon.at
:To: glingl at aon.at
:Date: Sat Apr 21 00:11:43 2001
:Subject: python-mehl2
:Vielleicht geht's so!
:probieren wirs's aus
:Grüße
:Gregor
:X-Mozilla-Status: 0000
:X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000
:X-UIDL: 987804705.4637304.SSP1NO49,S=520
:
:
:..... which contains the message-text, which nevertheless is
:not displayed in the email-client-window.
:Perhaps the last three lines are the offending ones, because
:comparing the python-sent to normal emails, i find those lines before
:the message.
:Or something else is going wrong.
:
:How could I use the sendmail-method correctly?
:
:... asks a little bit desparately
:Gregor Lingl
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