Hi all, i know i'm probably going to ask a very silly question, but i can't figure out where i'm doing wrong just reading the docs.
trying to build and send a mail message using the email.* modules (with python 2.5). a simplified version of my script that breaks is this: mailtest.py ---------------------------------------------------------------------- # coding: ISO-8859-15 import os, mimetypes, smtplib, base64, StringIO import email.message, email.header, email.generator messg = email.message.Message() messg.set_charset('ISO-8859-15') messg['To'] = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' messg['From'] = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' messg['Subject'] = email.header.Header("This is a test.", 'ISO-8859-15') messg["Message-ID"] = email.Utils.make_msgid() messg["Content-type"] = "Multipart/mixed" messg.preamble = "Mime test\n" pl = email.Message.Message() pl.add_header("Content-type", "text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15") pl.add_header("Content-transfer-encoding", "8bit") pl.set_payload("Body text goes here.\n", 'ISO-8859-15') messg.attach(pl) messg.as_string() ---------------------------------------------------------------------- running it gives: Traceback (most recent call last): File "mailtest.py", line 22, in <module> messg.as_string() File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/message.py", line 131, in as_string g.flatten(self, unixfrom=unixfrom) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 84, in flatten self._write(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 109, in _write self._dispatch(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 135, in _dispatch meth(msg) File "/usr/lib/python2.5/email/generator.py", line 175, in _handle_text raise TypeError('string payload expected: %s' % type(payload)) TypeError: string payload expected: <type 'list'> the real case is just a little more complex: i have to attach some files and then send the message with smtplib to a list of recipients. no problems when attaching files etc., but when i try to get the message value 'flattened' to pass it to smtplib i always get an error as above. it seems to work only if i don't use .attach but just .set_payload in the main message, but in this case i cannot attach the extra files (or maybe i'm wrong in this?) any help (or pointers to docs/examples etc) are very appreciated :-) 10x, C. -- Quando l'infanzia muore i suoi cadaveri sono chiamati adulti. (B. Aldiss) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list