Eric Price wrote:
> Hi;
> I'm writing a script that includes an email function. So I went to the
> cookbook and dug up this, and tweaked it just a bit to make it easier to
> get it to work, but it throws an error:
>
>>>>def createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
> ... import MimeWriter, mimetools, cStringIO
> ... out = cStringIO.StringIO()
> ... # txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(msg)
> ... writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
> ... writer.addheader("From", sender)
> ... writer.addheader("To", recipient)
> ... writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
> ... writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
> ... writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
> ... writer.flushheaders()
> ... subpart = writer.nextpart()
> ... subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
> ... pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
> ... mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
> ... txtin.close()
> ... subpart = writer.nextpart()
> ... subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
> ... pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
> ... mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
> ... htmlin.close()
> ... writer.lastpart()
> ... msg = "test"
> ... out.close()
> ... return msg
> ...
>>>># ---------------------------------------------------------------
> ... def sendMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text):
> ... import smtplib
> ... message = createMail(sender, recipient, subject, html, text)
> ... server = smtplib.SMTP("localhost")
> ... server.sendmail(sender, recipient, message)
> ... server.quit()
> ...
>>>>if __name__=="__main__":
> ... sendMail("[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "[EMAIL PROTECTED]", "Web Stie(s)
> Down!!!", "", "text")
> ...
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
> File "<stdin>", line 4, in sendMail
> File "<stdin>", line 10, in createMail
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/MimeWriter.py", line 153, in
> startmultipartbody
> self._boundary = boundary or mimetools.choose_boundary()
> File "/usr/local/lib/python2.4/mimetools.py", line 130, in
> choose_boundary
> hostid = socket.gethostbyname(socket.gethostname())
> socket.gaierror: (8, 'hostname nor servname provided, or not known')
>>>>
>
> Now, I can send email from my server no problem. In fact, I have my script
> working already...but with a shell script instead of this python code.
:lol:
> Please advise.
> TIA,
> Eric
You may want to take a look at simplemail.py:
http://gelb.bcom.at/trac/simplemail/browser/trunk/simplemail.py
that does sending mails in Python comfortably.
HTH
H.
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