"morphex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an email that's in the utf-8 encoding, and I'm getting this
> error message when I try to send it using smtplib:
>
> * Module smtplib, line 688, in sendmail
> * Module smtplib, line 485, in data
> * Module smtplib, line 312, in send
> * Module socket, line 1, in sendall
>
> UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position
> 263-264: ordinal not in range(128)
>
> any suggestions on how I can approach this so that the email can be
> sent without raising errors?
looks like you're confusing Unicode (character set) and UTF-8 (encoding).
smtplib only deals with 8-bit character streams; if you want to use a specific
encoding, you have to apply it yourself *before* you call the library:
HOST = "..."
FROM = "..."
TO = "..."
BODY = u"..."
server = smtplib.SMTP(HOST)
server.sendmail(FROM, [TO], BODY.encode("utf-8"))
server.quit()
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