Hi!
I recently started playing with Python CGI, and I was happy that my
basic input-name--print-hello-name CGI form example worked, so I
thought I should advance to somew\hat more complicated scripts.
I'm trying to write a basic Python email CGI script to send email
through HTML email form.
I've seen a lot of examples out there, but nothing I tried so far
seemed to work. So I would like to know what I am doing wrong.
Here's the HTML form file:
<html>
<head>
<title>Email Form</title>
</head>
<body>
<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="sendMail.cgi">
<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME="key" VALUE="process">
Your name:<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="name" size=60>
<BR>
Email:<BR>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME="email" size=60>
<BR>
<P>
Comments:<BR>
<TEXTAREA NAME="comment" ROWS=8 COLS=60>
</TEXTAREA>
<P>
<INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send">
</FORM>
</body>
</html>
Here's the CGI script:
#!/usr/bin/python
import cgitb
cgitb.enable()
import cgi
import smtplib
print "Content-type: text/html\n"
def main():
form = cgi.FieldStorage()
if form.has_key("name") and form["name"].value != "":
fromaddress = form["email"].value
toaddress = my@email.com
message = form["comment"].value
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.set_debuglevel(1)
server.sendmail(fromaddress, toaddress, message)
server.quit()
print "<html><head><title>Sent</title></head>"
print "<body><h1 align=center>",
print "<p>Your message has been sent!</body>"
print "</html>"
if __name__ == '__main__': main()
Of course, I change the email address to my own.
I keep getting the premature end of script headers error.
Several questions:
1. server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost') should return the name of the
server, right? I don't need to explicitly name it, or do I?
2. cgitb.enable() - shouldn't that give me a trace back if something
goes wrong so I can debug the code? It doesn't seem to give me
anything...
3. What am I doing wrong here? How can I fix the errors and make it
work?
Please understand that I have read all the previous questions on this
matter, and when I tried to follow the instructions, none of them
seemed to work for me.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
