Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment

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From	Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org>
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Subject	Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment
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On 02/29/2016 11:13 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 4:08 AM, Peter Pearson
> <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> wrote:
>> try: smtp.sendmail(message['From'], message['To'], 
>> message.as_string()) except: print "Message sending has failed" 
>> sys.exit(1) print "Message sending was successful" sys.exit(0)
>> 
> 
> This is the problem, right here. Replace this code with:
> 
> smtp.sendmail(message['From'], message['To'], message.as_string())

Hmm, I'm a bit confused. Are you saying that the problem is that I'm
enclosing the code in a Try/Except block? Besides that, I don't see
anything different. If it's the Try/Except block, how do I catch the
exception it might generate if I'm not using the exception block?

Thanks,
Anthony


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Sending an email with a binary attachment Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org> - 2016-02-29 02:10 -0600
  Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Peter Pearson <pkpearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2016-02-29 17:08 +0000
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 04:13 +1100
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2016-02-29 18:22 +0000
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-29 20:43 -0500
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org> - 2016-03-01 01:58 -0600
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 19:03 +1100
    Re: Sending an email with a binary attachment Anthony Papillion <anthony@cajuntechie.org> - 2016-03-01 22:29 -0600

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