How to send a proper unicode encoded email using Python 2.7

Posted by tkopczuk on June 28, 2011

While working on a Django Celery task to send thousands of emails in various languages I had a problem with sending accented letters. Web crossed the Unicode line a while ago – email has yet to follow.

I have recently seen many posts on sending unicode email from Python (i.e. on Twisted Matrix Blog), but the methods did not produce proper results.

This method works, even with SendGrid.

(unknown sender) Gmail problem

Cited example lacks proper encoding of the From: header. It results in Gmail describing the sender as (unknown sender) if you attempt to give sender a name. The trick lies in Unicode quoted printable encoding the name and not the email address. Especially not “< >” characters that mark the address.

Complete code to send an email:

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Maggi Trymbill

Great article, was looking for a reason for the (unknown sender) in Gmail. One question; Why do you create a generator and flatten message object to file? What does that actually do, and what do you gain from it?

Thanks! :)
- https://askthepony.com/blog Tomek Kopczuk
  
  Actually you gain nothing, the effect is the same as using msg.as_string().
  
  Generator has some parameters you can set, more or less useful (like mangle_from), but overall you do not lose much not using them (9 in 10 chance you lose nothing). The default one is doing all right.
  
  The advantage is though, that you can create your own generator and have more control over the parsing and processing the message object tree. We never had to, so far :-)
  
  Cheers!
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I want to have a similar theme for my blog. Can you help me on this?
- http://praveens.myopenid.com/ Praveens
  
  Guys you can atleast post a reply here if its custom and guide me with some tutorials. I am just starting into web dev and want to learn by experimentation.
  - https://askthepony.com/blog Tomek Kopczuk
    
    We’re working people, have some patience mate. As for the theme, it’s custom as far as I remember.
    - http://praveens.myopenid.com/ Praveens
      
      Ok sorry for rushing you guys.
Jakob Olsen

http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html#id5
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
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Victor Varvariuc

Thanks! msg['From'] = “”%s” ” % (Header(from_address[0], ‘utf-8′), from_address[1]) did the trick!

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