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Reputation: 97

Python strange send email behavior

I have basic script that can send properly emails:

#!/usr/bin/python 
import smtplib
  
sender = '[email protected]'  
receivers = ['[email protected]']  
message = """From:Email cronjob <[email protected]> Subject:  
Anything  
 
Some more text """    
message = message + "\nso far so good"
 
try:    
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')   
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers,message)             
   print "Successfully sent email" 
except SMTPException:    
   print "Error: unable to send email"

With snippet above the email is properly sent, however if I put the same script as a method that looks like this:

#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
 
def sendMail(text):    
    sender = '[email protected]'    
    receivers = ['[email protected]']
 
    message = """From: Email cronjob <[email protected]>    
    Subject: Anything
    Initial text    """       
    message = message + text
 
    try: 
       smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')  
       smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message)  
       print "Successfully sent email"    
    except SMTPException:   
       print "Error: unable to send email"
    
sendMail("\nlet's try it")

The email is sent but the sender address, the email title and the recipient address are not longer visible in the received email, just the body text.

How can I fix this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 345

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 97

This worked out:

message = """From: %s\nTo: %s\nSubject: My subject\a title\n\n%s""" % (sender, receivers, results).

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Senthil Kumaran
Senthil Kumaran

Reputation: 56841

Indent your code properly and make sure the the email headers like From and Subject are in their own line separated by atleast a newline (\n) character and then there is the body of the email. You should have a consistent behavior in both your examples.

Upvotes: 4

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