You found a bug. Thank you for reporting this and I will fix it in trunk tonight.
Massimo On Apr 13, 12:01 pm, Igor Gassko <gas...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I have the following code in my app: > #import Mail > from gluon.tools import Mail > mail=Mail() > #specify server > mail.settings.server='mail.mydomain.com:26' > mail.settings.login=None or 'usern...@mydomain.com:password' > #specify address to send as > mail.settings.sender='usern...@mydomain.com' > #send the message > mail.send(to='someaddr...@someserver.com', subject='something', > message='blahblahblah') > As taken from > http://wiki.web2py.com/Sending_Email_with_Plain_Text_HTML_Versions_pl... > The script kept failing with smtp error 550 (administrative > prohibition). > After some research with the hosting tech guys, this entry was found > in sendmail log: > rejected after DATA: there is no valid sender in any header line > This gave me a clue concerning the problem: I figured that the > outbound message is malformed. > I debugged the Mail.send procedure and saw, that the DATA is as > follows: > > Content-Type: multipart/related; > boundary="===============1127073748==" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > To: someaddr...@someserver.com > Subject: something > > --===============1127073748== > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="===============1727006280==" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > --===============1727006280== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > blahblahblah > --===============1727006280==-- > --===============1127073748==-- > > Note, that "From" is missing, which corresponds to the entry in the > log file. > > I changed Mail.send() procedure by adding the following line: > payload['From'] = > self.settings.sender.decode(encoding).encode('utf-8') > at file tools.py, line 259, immediately below the line > payload = MIMEMultipart.MIMEMultipart('related') > > now the new DATA is as follows: > > Content-Type: multipart/related; > boundary="===============0875610869==" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > From: usern...@mydomain.com > To: someaddr...@someserver.com > Subject: something > > --===============0875610869== > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; > boundary="===============0956429397==" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > --===============0956429397== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > blahblahblah > --===============0956429397==-- > --===============0875610869==-- > > At this time the messages pass successfully. > I wonder whether I am missing something (perhaps, somethings in > mail.settings) and there's a way to fix this problem without modifying > the framework code. > Thanks! -- To unsubscribe, reply using "remove me" as the subject.
