I think I found the solution: http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?id=2288
On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Rishi Arora <[email protected]>wrote: > I have an inbound mail handler in my python GAE app, that logs the sender > of the incoming email like this: > > class MyMailHandler(InboundMailHandler): > def receive(self, message): > . . . > logging.info('email from [' + message.sender + '] ' + > str(type(message.sender))) > > > And for some of my received emails, I see something like this in the logs: > > email from ["=?utf-8?B?SmVubnkgU3RlZWxl?=" <[email protected]>] <type > 'str'> > > Whats with the utf-8 stuff within the quotes? (note that I have changed the > actual email address). Python reports "message.sender" as a str type, not > unicode. Why am I not getting the name of the actual sender. In most > emails I would see the following in the logs: > > email from ["Someone Somewhere" <[email protected]>] <type 'str'> > > Any clues? > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
