In this Sending Mail tutorial http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/python/mail/sendingmail.html it seems that
message.subject is missing. Dev server throws "MissingSubjectError()" Adding missing.subject = "hello" fixes the problem. from google.appengine.api import mail from google.appengine.api import users from google.appengine.ext import webapp from google.appengine.ext.webapp.util import login_required class InviteFriendHandler(webapp.RequestHandler): @login_required def post(self): to_addr = self.request.get("friend_email") if not mail.is_email_valid(to_addr): # Return an error message... pass message = mail.EmailMessage() message.sender = users.get_current_user().email() message.to = to_addr message.body = """ I've invited you to Example.com! To accept this invitation, click the following link, or copy and paste the URL into your browser's address bar: %s """ % generate_invite_link(to_addr) message.send() -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to google-appeng...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.