Hallöchen! I thought that with the following code snippet, I could generate a MIME email stub:
#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email.Generator import Generator import sys message = MIMEText(u"Hallöchen!", _charset="utf-8") Generator(sys.stdout).flatten(message) However, MIMEText doesn't see that u"Hallöchen!" is a unicode and encodes it accoring to _charset. Additionally, it is encoded as base64 (why?). But okay, I added some lines to work around it: #!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email.Generator import Generator from email.Charset import Charset import sys charset = Charset("utf-8") charset.body_encoding = None message = MIMEText(u"Hallöchen!".encode("utf-8"), _charset="utf-8") message.set_charset(charset) Generator(sys.stdout).flatten(message) However, the result of this is Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Hallöchen! The Content-Transfer-Encoding is wrong. Okay (well, not okay but) then I added message["Content-Transfer-Encoding"] = "8bit" to my code and got Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hallöchen! I mean, I can work around anything, but is the email package just rather buggy or do I something completely misguided here? Thanks for any hints! Tschö, Torsten. -- Torsten Bronger, aquisgrana, europa vetus Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (See http://ime.webhop.org for ICQ, MSN, etc.) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list