smtplib and getting a copy ?

[Lukasz Szybalski]

Hello,
I am sending an email with smtplib, and i need to get a copy of what i
have sent out.
Is there a way to do it?

I am storing the information into a database so I need to get message
id, time etc from the message that gets sent out.

Thanks

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[Oleg Broytmann]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2006 at 12:47:10PM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> I am sending an email with smtplib, and i need to get a copy of what i
> have sent out.

   Add yourself to the list of recipints addresses.

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[Barry Warsaw]

On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:47 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:

> I am sending an email with smtplib, and i need to get a copy of what i
> have sent out.
> Is there a way to do it?
>
> I am storing the information into a database so I need to get message
> id, time etc from the message that gets sent out.

Do you want the mail server to send you a copy, or do you want a copy of
what you send to the mail server?  If the former, just add a BCC header
and include the return address you want the copy sent to.  If the
latter, just do str(msg) to get the text.

-Barry


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[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 4/13/06, Barry Warsaw <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:47 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>
> > I am sending an email with smtplib, and i need to get a copy of what i
> > have sent out.
> > Is there a way to do it?
> >
> > I am storing the information into a database so I need to get message
> > id, time etc from the message that gets sent out.
>
> Do you want the mail server to send you a copy, or do you want a copy of
> what you send to the mail server?  If the former, just add a BCC header
> and include the return address you want the copy sent to.  If the
> latter, just do str(msg) to get the text.

Although that works to get what i created i also need to get :
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
Message-Id: <[hidden email]>

Anyway to do it? Does smtplib have a way to return exact thing it is sending?

> -Barry
>
>
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[Lukasz Szybalski]

Is message id generated by sending server or receiving server?

I could create a time stamp, but not sure about message id. The
easiest way i see it done, is to enter some kind of debug mode that
lets me see what is being transferred and enables me to get a copy of
sent message.

Lukasz

On 4/13/06, Lukasz Szybalski <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 4/13/06, Barry Warsaw <[hidden email]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 12:47 -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
> >
> > > I am sending an email with smtplib, and i need to get a copy of what i
> > > have sent out.
> > > Is there a way to do it?
> > >
> > > I am storing the information into a database so I need to get message
> > > id, time etc from the message that gets sent out.
> >
> > Do you want the mail server to send you a copy, or do you want a copy of
> > what you send to the mail server?  If the former, just add a BCC header
> > and include the return address you want the copy sent to.  If the
> > latter, just do str(msg) to get the text.
>
> Although that works to get what i created i also need to get :
> Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
> Message-Id: <[hidden email]>
>
> Anyway to do it? Does smtplib have a way to return exact thing it is sending?
>
> > -Barry
> >
> >
> >
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
> > Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)
> >
> > iQCVAwUARD6RY3EjvBPtnXfVAQIoFwP9HEayxK92vSYnsv4U9REibulopyFVS/PP
> > s4NYOkSZdiFhzJvLa5ikLndtWsBlW+7WQcBHjAJQM/Lro15A0OPwwTz/GlMuyRBZ
> > w3+oJYvA0usfXkyzf599mzWJeDMIVQEn5XI71bCr2A+4d81OdbbZR+B4dc2TyHxE
> > kokXiQsLVMY=
> > =UKfv
> > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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> www.lucasmanual.com
>

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[Matthew Dixon Cowles]

[Sorry, originally sent this reply directly]

Dear Lukasz,

> Is message id generated by sending server or receiving server?

It's intended to be created by the program that sends the mail, but
it's technically optional. The details are at:

http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html

If the sending program doesn't create a Message-ID header, one will
likely be added by some intermediate server.

> I could create a time stamp, but not sure about message id.

Python's email module has a convenience function to create one that
should be sufficient. It's documented at:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Utils.html

For example:

>>> import email.Utils
>>> email.Utils.make_msgid()
'<[hidden email]>'

Regards,
Matt

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[Mark Sapiro]

Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>
>Although that works to get what i created i also need to get :
>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
>Message-Id: <[hidden email]>
>
>Anyway to do it? Does smtplib have a way to return exact thing it is sending?

smtlib sends exactly what you give it. If you don't put Date: and
Message-Id: headers in the message you pass to smtplib, your outgoing
MTA adds them and the smtplib methods have no way to know what they
are.

If your application needs to know them, it has to create them and put
them in the message as suggested by Matthew in another reply.

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[Mark Sapiro]

Mark Sapiro wrote:

>Lukasz Szybalski wrote:
>>
>>Although that works to get what i created i also need to get :
>>Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 11:11:17 -0700 (PDT)
>>Message-Id: <[hidden email]>
>>
>>Anyway to do it? Does smtplib have a way to return exact thing it is sending?
>
>smtlib sends exactly what you give it. If you don't put Date: and
>Message-Id: headers in the message you pass to smtplib, your outgoing
>MTA adds them and the smtplib methods have no way to know what they
>are.

Actually, I looked a little more closely, and in your particular case
above it seems that at least the Message-Id: header was not added
until the message reached gmail.com.

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[Lukasz Szybalski]

On 4/13/06, Matthew Dixon Cowles <[hidden email]> wrote:

> Dear Lukasz,
>
> > Is message id generated by sending server or receiving server?
>
> It's intended to be created by the program that sends the mail, but
> it's technically optional. The details are at:
>
> http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html
>
> If the sending program doesn't create a Message-ID header, one will
> likely be added by some intermediate server.
>
> > I could create a time stamp, but not sure about message id.
>
> Python's email module has a convenience function to create one that
> should be sufficient. It's documented at:
>
> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-email.Utils.html
>
> For example:
>
> >>> import email.Utils
> >>> email.Utils.make_msgid()
> '<[hidden email]>'
>

great this is what i needed, and for time i used formatdate()

One last question.
Is there an easy way to covert body of an email into lines starting with ">"

If I received in my payload(), body of an email:
hello
how are you

I want to send a response with quoted part:
hi
>hello
>how are you

Is quote(str) a function that i would use? From description it seems
as it only escapes backslashes and quotes.

Thank you
Lukasz

> Regards,
> Matt
>
>
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[Oleg Broytmann]

On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 12:12:50PM -0500, Lukasz Szybalski wrote:

> One last question.
> Is there an easy way to covert body of an email into lines starting with ">"
>
> If I received in my payload(), body of an email:
> hello
> how are you
>
> I want to send a response with quoted part:
> hi
> >hello
> >how are you

body = message.get_payload()
answer = ["> %s" % line for line in body.split('\n')]
reply = '\n'.join(answer)

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[Matthew Dixon Cowles]

Dear Lukasz,

> Is there an easy way to covert body of an email into lines starting
> with ">"

Oleg is of course quite right. Depending on your exact needs, you may
also find the textwrap module useful:

http://docs.python.org/lib/module-textwrap.html

Regards,
Matt

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