Python - How to send utf-8 e-mail?

Question

how to send utf8 e-mail please?

import sys
import smtplib
import email
import re

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import         


        

Answer 1

The question asked by Martin Drlík is 7 years and 8 months old... And nowadays, thanks to the developers of Python, encoding problems are solved with version 3 of Python.

Consequently, it is no longer necessary to specify that one must use the utf-8 encoding:

#!/usr/bin/python2
# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
...
    part2 = MIMEText(text, "plain", "utf-8")

We will simply write:

#!/usr/bin/python3
...
    part2 = MIMEText(text, "plain")

Ultimate consequence: Martin Drlík's script works perfectly well!

However, it would be better to use the email.parser module, as suggested in email: Examples.

Answer 2

You should just add 'utf-8' argument to your MIMEText calls (it assumes 'us-ascii' by default).

For example:

# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

msg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
msg["Subject"] = u'テストメール'
part1 = MIMEText(u'\u3053\u3093\u306b\u3061\u306f\u3001\u4e16\u754c\uff01\n',
                 "plain", "utf-8")
msg.attach(part1)

print msg.as_string().encode('ascii')