problem with smtplib.sendmail

[Carey Evans]

kevinsl <kevinsl at yahoo.com> writes:

> fromaddr='test at test.com'
> toaddr='list-subscribe at test.com'
> msg=''
> mailserver=smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
> mailserver.sendmail(fromaddr,toaddr,msg) #error occurs here
> mailserver.quit()
> 
> localhost is running qmail 1.03.

qmail is a little more picky than some other mailers, and an empty
message is *not* a valid RFC822 message.

Try adding a minimum number of headers, e.g.,

msg='To: %s\n\n' % toaddr
[...]

Actually, that's not a valid RFC822 message either, but I think qmail
will accept it...

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