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    copied!<p>I'm writing a simple smtp-sender with authentification. Here's my code</p> <pre><code> SMTPserver, sender, destination = 'smtp.googlemail.com', 'user@gmail.com', ['reciever@gmail.com'] USERNAME, PASSWORD = "user", "password" # typical values for text_subtype are plain, html, xml text_subtype = 'plain' content=""" Hello, world! """ subject="Message Subject" from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP # this invokes the secure SMTP protocol (port 465, uses SSL) # from smtplib import SMTP # use this for standard SMTP protocol (port 25, no encryption) from email.MIMEText import MIMEText try: msg = MIMEText(content, text_subtype) msg['Subject']= subject msg['From'] = sender # some SMTP servers will do this automatically, not all conn = SMTP(SMTPserver) conn.set_debuglevel(False) conn.login(USERNAME, PASSWORD) try: conn.sendmail(sender, destination, msg.as_string()) finally: conn.close() except Exception, exc: sys.exit( "mail failed; %s" % str(exc) ) # give a error message </code></pre> <p>It works perfect, untill I try to send non-ascii symbols (russian cyrillic). How should i define a charset in a message to make it show in a proper way? Thanks in advance!</p> <p>UPD. I've changed my code:</p> <pre><code>text_subtype = 'text' content="&lt;p&gt;Текст письма&lt;/p&gt;" msg = MIMEText(content, text_subtype) msg['From']=sender # some SMTP servers will do this automatically, not all msg['MIME-Version']="1.0" msg['Subject']="=?UTF-8?Q?Тема письма?=" msg['Content-Type'] = "text/html; charset=utf-8" msg['Content-Transfer-Encoding'] = "quoted-printable" … conn.sendmail(sender, destination, str(msg)) </code></pre> <p>So, first time I spectify text_subtype = 'text', and then in header I place a msg['Content-Type'] = "text/html; charset=utf-8" string. Is it correct?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> Finally, I've solved my message problem You should write smth like msg = MIMEText(content.encode('utf-8'), 'plain', 'UTF-8')</p>
 

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