[Zope] Getting email fields right

[Bruce Eckel]

It turns out this was a bug with MailHost, that was fixed in 2.4.3.
I'm running 2.4.2.

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On 11/29/01 at 3:56 PM flynt wrote:

>Hi Bruce
>
>I am puzzled a bit. I tested before I sent you the message. And I
tested
>more after your reply that it did not work for you. Furthermore,
looking
>in the source code, the Mailhost product's *MailHost.send* method
does
>nothing else than using smtplib. So if Fredric Lundh's receipt is
>working with smtplib, it should do so with Zope's Mailhost.
>
>I tested with:
>- Zope 2.3.3 and Zope 2.4.3 on Linux
>- Zope 2.4.3 on Windows XP
>- Email clients Netscape Messenger and MS Outlook
>- different SMTP servers in the MailHost object: Intranet
(Sendmail and
>MS Exchange), mx0.gmx.net (qmail)
>- different sender and recipients addresses (Intranet and GMX)
>- by using test tab of the external method and by calling the
external
>method
>from a DTML method.
>For all cases it works.
>
>I could reproduce your original problem (I got the from part in
the
>email, but for recipients I got only *Undisclosed recipients*),
but I
>cannot reproduce the problems with the wrong (missing ?) *from*
and *to*
>you are reporting now. I *do* get the *from* and *to* fields
correctly
>filled when using the external method that I copy-pasted into the
email
>that I have sent earlier.
>
>Sorry, at the moment I have no idea about what might be the
problem.
>Maybe someone else has an idea ? And I do not understand why it
should
>work with smtplib but not with Zope's Mailhost object's *send*
method.
>
>--- Flynt
>
>
>Bruce Eckel wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks ... except, it doesn't actually work. I installed it and
>> tried it, and it sends email but the From and To fields are not
>> filled out properly.
>> 
>> Using smtplib does work, however.
>> 
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>> On 11/28/01 at 1:13 PM flynt wrote:
>> 
>> >Bruce Eckel wrote:
>> >>
>> >> I'm using the MailHost to send email from within an external
>> >> method. I've tried a number of different combinations,
including
>> >> something as elaborate as this:
>> >>
>> >> self.MailHost.send("This is a test", # Body
>> >>     "To: Bruce Eckel <Bruce@EckelObjects.com>",
>> >>     "From: Bruce Eckel <Bruce@EckelObjects.com>",
>> >>      "Test Email") # Subject
>> >>
>> >> However, I can't seem to get the "to" and "from" fields to
show
>> up
>> >> right in the resulting email. All I end up with is a 'to'
field
>> of
>> >> Bruce@EckelObjects.com
>> >> and an empty 'from' field.
>> >>
>> >> I suspect others have done this before and solved the
problem.
>> Or
>> >> will want to :-)
>> >
>> >Hi Bruce
>> >
>> >With the help of Lundh's *Python Standard Library* I got to the
>> >following. This is in the external method:
>> >
>> >import string
>> >def testmail(self):
>> >        message = "This is a test"
>> >        mto = "Bruce@EckelObjects.com"
>> >        mfrom = "Bruce@EckelObjects.com"
>> >        subject = "Test Email"
>> >        encode = None
>> >
>> >        body = string.join((
>> >                "From: %s" % mfrom,
>> >                "To: %s" % mto,
>> >                "Subject: %s" % subject,
>> >                "",
>> >                message), "\r\n")
>> >
>> >        self.MailHost.send(body, [mto], mfrom, subject, encode)
>> >
>> >
>> >Greetings
>> >
>> >--- Flynt



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