[ python-Bugs-736407 ] Problem With email.MIMEText Package

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Bugs item #736407, was opened at 2003-05-12 05:41
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Category: Python Library
Group: Python 2.3
>Status: Pending
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: John Abel (judasiscariot)
Assigned to: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Summary: Problem With email.MIMEText Package

Initial Comment:
Problem with email.MIMEText.  I created a MIMEText
message (following the example in the documentation). 
The problem occurs when as_string() is called.  This is
the traceback:

  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Message.py",
line 113, in as_string
    g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py",
line 102, in flatten
    self._write(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py",
line 137, in _write
    self._write_headers(msg)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Generator.py",
line 183, in _write_headers
    header_name=h, continuation_ws='\t').encode()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py", line
415, in encode
    return self._encode_chunks(newchunks, maxlinelen)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/Header.py", line
375, in _encode_chunks
    _max_append(chunks, s, maxlinelen, extra)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.3/email/quopriMIME.py",
line 84, in _max_append
    L.append(s.lstrip())
AttributeError: 'list' object has no attribute 'lstrip'

I'm using 2.3b1, on RH9.  The same piece of code works
with 2.2.2.


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>Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-11-21 15:29

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There have no follow ups to this message in months, so I'm
moving it to Pending status.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-09-03 08:15

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Sorry, but you're going to have to work harder at trying to
boil down the buggy code.  When I run ServerMonitor.py, I
get an immediate traceback

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "ServerMonitor.py", line 18, in ?
    import ThreadUtils, NetMon
ImportError: No module named ThreadUtils

Here's one thing you can try to do: catch the exception in
your code, then pickle the Message object up and post the
pickle.  I can at least reconstitute the pickle and look at
the structure.

Also, I'm guessing the problem is somewhere in ProcessMail()
in PostITControl.py.  Be sure that the mailBody argument is
a string and nothing else.

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Comment By: John Abel (judasiscariot)
Date: 2003-05-21 04:16

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The Config.ini will need to modifying to suit your machine
settings.  Run the ServerMonitor.py, and then run
PostITControl.py.  PostITControl.py crashes when trying to
send a mail.

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Comment By: John Abel (judasiscariot)
Date: 2003-05-21 04:13

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Sorry, been trying to narrow the code down.  If I have a
bare minimum script, it works, yet the original still fails.
 I'll upload the required files (3).

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-05-19 15:59

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I'm moving this to Pending since wthout more information I
can't help. This starts the 14 day clock ticking.  After 2
weeks this bug report will be closed, unless someone follows
up with more information.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-05-15 10:07

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Sorry, the attached code sample is incomplete.  It is not
sufficient for me to reproduce the problem.

Please boil down your example to a self-contained -- but as
small as possible -- example.

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Comment By: John Abel (judasiscariot)
Date: 2003-05-15 05:32

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Sorry, forgot the comment.  When running the script using
python2.2 (email 2.4.3), I don't receive any errors, mail
gets sent.  It only seems to happen with 2.3b.

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Comment By: Barry A. Warsaw (bwarsaw)
Date: 2003-05-13 11:45

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Can you upload the exact code that you wrote that caused
this crash?  Please don't paste it.

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