I started shivering while reading your code. We would have written such code five or six years ago - because we had no other choice. Please use the standard 'email' module of Python...this just works and you don't need to write such ugly and error-prone DTML code. Yes, I know it is ugly and I would like to use python instead, but as I said before I can't use the email module of python since the Machine were the page is hosted isn't administrated by me, so, there isn't any change of allowing or installing a python module.