[Tutor] email content-type: text/plain

[shawn bright]

ok,  will try this out tomorrow at work.
thanks.
sk

On 11/16/06, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 15:57 -0600, shawn bright wrote:
> > use  MIMEText(message, 'someTypeThatIsn'tPlain')  ? but type/plain is
> > what i am after.
> > i am a bit confused here. It defaults to plain, but there is not
> > anything in the message headers that say what type it is. Should i use
> > MIMEText(message, 'text/plain') ?
> NO.
>
> server.sendmail takes a list of recipients.  So rather than specifying
> msg['To'] for the recipients, use
>         [address,'youremail at someisp.net']
>
> You'll see exactly what you are sending.  My emails that get sent with
> Python code pretty much like yours have the proper MIME tag:
>
>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>         MIME-Version: 1.0
>
> Do you have access to the server log files?  Could something else be
> going wrong?
>
>
> My (works with email to text messaging and paging services) code:
>
> import urllib, urllib2, smtplib, pprint
> import email.MIMEText as MIMEText
> (snipped the dull parts)
>     msg = MIMEText.MIMEText(msg_text)
>     if subject:
>         msg['Subject'] = subject
>     msg['From'] = from_addy
>     # to_addy is a list of recipients
>     msg['To'] = ','.join(to_addy)
>     server = smtplib.SMTP( mail_server)
>     server.sendmail( from_addy, to_addy, msg.as_string())
>     server.close()
>
> >
> > thanks
> > sk
> >
> > On 11/16/06, Chris Hengge <pyro9219 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >         Not sure if I'm really helping, but I want to try for all the
> >         help I've gotten...
> >         I took this from: http://docs.python.org/lib/module-
> >         email.message.html
> >
> ##############################################################################
> >         class MIMEText(
> >         _text[, _subtype[, _charset]])
> >         Module: email.mime.text
> >
> >         A subclass of MIMENonMultipart, the MIMEText class is used to
> >         create MIME objects of major type text. _text is the string
> >         for the payload. _subtype is the minor type and defaults to
> >         plain. _charset is the character set of the text and is passed
> >         as a parameter to the MIMENonMultipart constructor; it
> >         defaults to us-ascii. No guessing or encoding is performed on
> >         the text data.
> >
> >
> #############################################################################
> >
> >         Going off this, I'd say you need to change:
> >
> >         msg = MIMEText(message)
> >
> >
> >         to:
> >
> >         msg = MIMEText(message, 'someTypeThatIsn'tPlain')
> >
> >         On 11/16/06, shawn bright <nephish at gmail.com> wrote:
> >                 hey there all,
> >                 i am using the email package and the phone provider i
> >                 am trying to get a text message thru has sent me an
> >                 email that says that they are looking for a tag that
> >                 says 'content-type text/plain'
> >
> >                 i have tried about everything i can think of to get it
> >                 in there, but everything i have tried has failed.
> >
> >                 here is what i have so far:
> >                 address = 'someplace at someplace.com'
> >                 message = 'some text that needs to be delivered via
> >                 text message'
> >                 msg = MIMEText
> >                 (message)
> >                 msg['Subject'] = 'pivots'
> >                 msg['From'] = 'l11 at xit.net'
> >                 msg['To'] = address
> >                 server.sendmail(msg['From'],msg['To'], msg.as_string
> >                 ())
> >
> >                 any ideas ?
> >                 thanks
> >
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