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Hello!
I am not a programmer so I appologize if I just don't understand the docs properly. I need to wirte a function which sends emails with utf-8 encoded subject and body. I tried something like this:
def sendMail (fromAddr, toAddr, subject, body = '', attachment = ''):
 message = email.mime.multipart.MIMEMultipart()
 message.add_header('From',fromAddr)
 message.add_header('To',toAddr)
 message['Subject'] = email.header.Header(subject,'utf-8')
 if (body != ''):
 msgPart = email.mime.text.MIMEText(body,'plain','utf-8')
 message.attach(msgPart)
 if (attachment != ''):
 if os.path.exists(attachment) == True:
 filename = attachment.rpartition(os.sep)[2]
 fp = open(attachment,'rb')
 msgPart = email.mime.base.MIMEBase('application','octet-stream')
 msgPart.set_payload(fp.read())
 fp.close()
 email.encoders.encode_base64(msgPart)
 msgPart.add_header('Content-Disposition','attachment',filename=filename)
 message.attach(msgPart)
 if smtpPort == 25:
 smtpCon = smtplib.SMTP(smtpSrv,smtpPort)
 else:
 smtpCon = smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtpSrv,smtpPort)
 if (smtpUser != '') and (smtpPass != ''):
 smtpCon.login(smtpUser,smtpPass)
 smtpCon.send_message(message,mail_options=['UTF8SMTP','8BITMIME'])
 logger.info (_('Sent mail to: {0} with subject: {1}').format(toAddr,subject))
 smtpCon.quit()
I realized that adding email subject this way somehow brokes the message, so that the plain text body of the message is not visible on receiving side. I had to chnage the code like this:
 base64Subject = base64.b64encode(subject.encode('utf-8')).decode()
 encodedSubject = '=?UTF-8?B?{0}?='.format(base64Subject)
 message.add_header('Subject',encodedSubject)
Am I doing something wrong?