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Emailing unicode chars?

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Join Date: Jul 2009

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Emailing unicode chars?

Aug 11th, 2009

The following fails with an error message about not being able to encode the euro char. It works fine without the €.

I have the feeling I'm missing something simple here, but can't figure it out. A fix would be appreciated.

I'd like to use this in 2.5.4 and 3.1

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import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 
sender = to = 'ABC@DEF.com'
server = 'smtp.DEF.com'
 
msg = MIMEText('€10')
msg['Subject'] = 'Hello'
msg['From'] = sender
msg['To'] = to
 
s = smtplib.SMTP(server)
s.sendmail(sender, [to], msg.as_string())
s.quit()
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

sender = to = 'ABC@DEF.com'
server = 'smtp.DEF.com'

msg = MIMEText('€10')
msg['Subject'] = 'Hello'
msg['From'] = sender
msg['To'] = to

s = smtplib.SMTP(server)
s.sendmail(sender, [to], msg.as_string())
s.quit()

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Re: Emailing unicode chars?

Aug 14th, 2009

Any suggestions or pointers for search? There are a large number of smtplib examples out there, but everything I find either (1) assumes plaintext and ignores encoding issues or (2) encodes attachments, but not in ways that generate readable characters (e.g., change everything to base64).

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Re: Emailing unicode chars?

Aug 14th, 2009

See if Unicode Emails in Python does anything to solve the problem.

It looks to me like you are reuqired to set the mime encoding to tell it you are using Unicode