WhatamI doing wrong ? (re: About Content-Transfer-Encoding)

[Dhirja Gangopadhyay]

I did the following few things in this:

I found on a Google Search -
http://www.linuxsolutions.demon.co.uk/PythonPages2.html
    subwriter = w.nextpart()
    subwriter.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "base64")
    subwriter.addheader("Content-Disposition", 'attachment; filename="%s"' %
_fileName)
    f = subwriter.startbody('application/octet-stream; name="%s"' %
_fileName)
    subwriter.flushheaders()
    base64.encode(open('./%s' % _fileName, 'r'), f)
    w.lastpart()

Where I learnt to change my:

    listLines = ['zxczxc','werwerwer']
    subwriter = w.nextpart()
    f = subwriter.startbody('text/html')
    subwriter.flushheaders()
    f.writelines(listLines)
    w.lastpart()

To:

    def mthEncoder(lstLines):
        import base64
        tmpList = []
        for lstLine in lstLines:
            tmpList.append(base64.stringencode(lstLine))
        return tmpList

    listLines = ['zxczxc','werwerwer']
    subwriter = w.nextpart()
    subwriter.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "base64")
    subwriter.addheader("Content-Disposition", 'inline')
    f = subwriter.startbody('text/html')
    subwriter.flushheaders()
    f.writelines(mthEncoder(listLines))
    w.lastpart()

Works fine on the server. The e-mail goes out.

But when received on the Outlook Express 5.5 client, the strings are all
mangled.
I cant figure out why. What am I doing Wrong ?

Thanks

Sandipan

PS. I am using Dhirja's account as my ISP's SMTP server is down !

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dhirja Gangopadhyay" <dhirja at vsnl.net>
To: <python-list at python.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 7:32 PM
Subject: About Content-Transfer-Encoding


> I use the MimeWriter module to build a MIME body that I then send over
SMTP
> using smtplib.
>
> How can I force content-transfer-encoding to base64 ?
> Content-type is text/plain, text/html and text/xml.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sandipan
>
>
>
> --
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
>