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REPOST: Re: long lines in HTML attachments

Iddo idoerg at cc.huji.ac.il
Sat Dec 29 07:39:44 EST 2001 
"Gillou" <nospam at bigfoot.com> wrote in message news:<a0fhji$2ngg$1 at norfair.nerim.net>...
> Encode your mail body with quoted printable encoding (see doc of module
> "quopri"). This way, the recipient's mail client is supposed to re-built the
> lines broken by quoted-printable encodings.
> I tested this successfully with OE5, Netscape messenger and StarOffice Mail.
> 


Thanks Gilles. Using quopri did the trick :-)

Iddo



> Don't forget to add this header to your mail:
> 
> "Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable"
> 
> Or download Python 2.2 that has a new "email" standard package that handles
> email messages (parse and marshal/serialize) as Python objects (easier to
> handle than playing with the various packages you may need for handling
> emails).
> Heard that this package is available separately and may work with older
> Python versions but I have no URL for this (Google for this).
> 
> HTH
> 
> --Gilles
> 
> "Iddo" <idoerg at cc.huji.ac.il> a écrit dans le message news:
> 7a256ac1.0112270203.77efb6f2 at posting.google.com...
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to use smtplib and mimecntl to email an attached html
> > document. The trouble is that the html document contains some very
> > long physical lines (500 chars). It is important that those lines be
> > preserved as such, since I use <pre> formatting in the htdoc. Some
> > mail clients (e.g. Pine 4.40) truncate or insert a linefeed in those
> > lines, creating a mess. Any way of attaching my long-lined files and
> > getting them through intact? Following is a code snippet of what I do.
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Iddo
>

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