Hunter wrote:
I am writing a script that needs to send some emails. And I've used smtplib in the past and it is pretty easy. But I thought, gee it would be easier if I could just call it as a function, passing the from, to, subject, and message text. So I wrote it up as a function and it sort of works, but I get a weird error. When it runs it inserts a "\t" tab character before each item during the send portion (which I can see when I turn on debug). The end result is that I don't get any body or subject in my emails. It works fine when I copy the inside of the function and run it directly. It isn't a dealbreaker, I can certainly just call it direct, but from a learning Python perspective I'm wondering if anyone knows what exactly is happening. I'm more interested in the why this is happening than a solution (though that would be great too). Oh and if you could explain it to me, with no CS background, that would be even better.I am working on Windows Vista with Python 2.5.2 (activestate). Thanks --Joshua Snip of script (more or less a copy/paste from effbot): fromaddress = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' tolist = ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]','[EMAIL PROTECTED]'] msgsubj = "Hello!" messagebody = "This message was sent with Python's smtplib." def send_mail(fromaddress,tolist,msgsubj,messagebody): import smtplib SERVER = "mymailserver.mydomain.com" message = """\ From: %s To: %s Subject: %s %s """ % (fromaddress, ", ".join(tolist),msgsubj, messagebody)
^^^^^ The tabs are exactly here. best is to use the mail package to generate mime compliant emails and use simple templates - which could in the easiest form just module level constants like: stdform=""" Hello %(greeting)s, this automated email is about %(subject)s ... """ and so on and then you use it with stdform % dict(greeting='Mr Ed',subject='writing emails') ... HTH Tino
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