Lorenzo Thurman wrote: > Gabriel Genellina wrote: > > Lorenzo Thurman wrote: > > > >> I'm using the Mimewriter and mimetools modules to create html messages. > >> They work OK, except that when the messages are received, they always > >> have the timestamp of 12/31/1969. I've looked through both packages and > >> > > The date goes into the message headers, like From, To, Subject... > > message.add_header("Date", "Thu, 22 Jun 2006 23:18:15 -0300") > > > Thanks for the reply. When I try this though, I get an error: > AttributeError: 'datetime.datetime' object has no attribute 'split' > I'm trying to use a variable for the date, since of course, it should > always be 'now'.
You have to convert the date into a string, using the right format. The docs for the time module have a recipe: http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/module-time.html (look for RFC 2822) -- Gabriel Genellina -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list