Hi;
I'm writing a script that includes an email function. So I went to the
cookbook and dug up this, and tweaked it just a bit to make it easier to get
it to work, but it throws an error:
>>>def createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
... import MimeWriter, mimetools, cStringIO
... out = cStringIO.StringIO()
... # txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(msg)
... writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
... writer.addheader("From", sender)
... writer.addheader("To", recipient)
... writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
... writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
... writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
... writer.flushheaders()
... subpart = writer.nextpart()
... subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
... pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
... mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
... txtin.close()
... subpart = writer.nextpart()
... subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
... pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
... mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
... htmlin.close()
... writer.lastpart()
... msg = "test"
... out.close()
... return msg
...
>>># ---------------------------------------------------------------
... def sendMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
... import smtplib
... message = createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text)
... server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
... server.sendmail(sender, recipient, message)
... server.quit()
...
>>>if __name__=="__main__":
... sendMail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Web Stie(s)
Down!!!", "", "text")
...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
File "<stdin>", line 4, in sendMail
File "<stdin>", line 10, in createMail
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/MimeWriter.py", line 153, in
startmultipartbody
self._boundary = boundary or mimetools.choose_boundary()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/mimetools.py", line 130, in choose_boundary
hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
socket.gaierror: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known')
>>>
Now, I can send email from my server no problem. In fact, I have my script
working already...but with a shell script instead of this python code.
Please advise.
TIA,
Eric
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