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.
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