Hi, in response to a bug report I got the follow helpful comments from R. David Murray. Many thanks to him. (Unfortunately, I don't know his email, so I can write him directly)
To generate an email (with non-ascii letters) R. David Murray wrote: >>> But even better, so will this: >>> m = Message(policy=policy.SMTP) >>> m['From'] = "Günter Weiße <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>" This works, but now I cannot add a date field Trying m['Date'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p') I get Traceback (most recent call last): File "Test_EMail_Py3_4.py", line 23, in <module> msg['Date'] = datetime.datetime.utcnow().strftime('%m/%d/%Y %I:%M:%S %p') File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/message.py", line 359, in __setitem__ self._headers.append(self.policy.header_store_parse(name, val)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/policy.py", line 119, in header_store_parse return (name, self.header_factory(name, value)) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/headerregistry.py", line 583, in __call__ return self[name](name, value) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/headerregistry.py", line 194, in __new__ cls.parse(value, kwds) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/headerregistry.py", line 300, in parse value = utils.parsedate_to_datetime(value) File "/usr/lib64/python3.3/email/utils.py", line 243, in parsedate_to_datetime *dtuple, tz = __parsedate_tz(data) TypeError: 'NoneType' object is not iterable Many thanks for a hint, Helmut. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list