Hi,

I have written a command-line program to send email using

from email.message import EmailMessage

which has an option '--verbose' which prints the email via

if args.verbose:
print(f"{mail.as_string()}")

If I run this with

$ poetry run send_email loris -l en -s "Another test" -t ~/tmp/blorp_bleep.txt --verbose

the following is printed to the terminal:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: hpc@zedat.fu-berlin.de
To: loris@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Subject: Another test

RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEluYy4KMDEwMTAx │
IEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK

However I would like to see the text as

Dear Dr. Bennett,

Blorp! Bleep!

Regards,

Mailbot

--
Mailbot Inc.
010101 Bot Boulevard
Botham City
Bötland

which is how the text appears in the mail.

The 'ö' in 'Bötland' triggers the encoding - with 'Botland' the text
printed to the terminal is the same way as that in the mail.

How do I decode the message properly for an terminal which uss UTF-8?

Regards

Loris

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"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have written a command-line program to send email using
>
> from email.message import EmailMessage
>
> which has an option '--verbose' which prints the email via
>
> if args.verbose:
> print(f"{mail.as_string()}")
>
> If I run this with
>
> $ poetry run send_email loris -l en -s "Another test" -t ~/tmp/blorp_bleep.txt --verbose
>
> the following is printed to the terminal:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> From: hpc@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> To: loris@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> Subject: Another test
>
> RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEluYy4KMDEwMTAx │
> IEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK
>
> However I would like to see the text as
>
> Dear Dr. Bennett,
>
> Blorp! Bleep!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mailbot
>
> --
> Mailbot Inc.
> 010101 Bot Boulevard
> Botham City
> Bötland
>
> which is how the text appears in the mail.
>
> The 'ö' in 'Bötland' triggers the encoding - with 'Botland' the text
> printed to the terminal is the same way as that in the mail.
>
> How do I decode the message properly for an terminal which uss UTF-8?

If I do

From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Decoding of EmailMessage text
Gcc: "nnimap+fu_exchange:Gesendete Elemente"
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"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have written a command-line program to send email using
>
> from email.message import EmailMessage
>
> which has an option '--verbose' which prints the email via
>
> if args.verbose:
> print(f"{mail.as_string()}")
>
> If I run this with
>
> $ poetry run send_email loris -l en -s "Another test" -t ~/tmp/blorp_bleep.txt --verbose
>
> the following is printed to the terminal:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> From: hpc@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> To: loris@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> Subject: Another test
>
> RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEluYy4KMDEwMTAx │
> IEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK
>
> However I would like to see the text as
>
> Dear Dr. Bennett,
>
> Blorp! Bleep!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mailbot
>
> --
> Mailbot Inc.
> 010101 Bot Boulevard
> Botham City
> Bötland
>
> which is how the text appears in the mail.
>
> The 'ö' in 'Bötland' triggers the encoding - with 'Botland' the text
> printed to the terminal is the same way as that in the mail.
>
> How do I decode the message properly for an terminal which uss UTF-8?

If I do

From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python
Subject: Re: Decoding of EmailMessage text
Gcc: "nnimap+fu_exchange:Gesendete Elemente"
--text follows this line--
"Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I have written a command-line program to send email using
>
> from email.message import EmailMessage
>
> which has an option '--verbose' which prints the email via
>
> if args.verbose:
> print(f"{mail.as_string()}")
>
> If I run this with
>
> $ poetry run send_email loris -l en -s "Another test" -t ~/tmp/blorp_bleep.txt --verbose
>
> the following is printed to the terminal:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> From: hpc@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> To: loris@zedat.fu-berlin.de
> Subject: Another test
>
> RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEluYy4KMDEwMTAx │
> IEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK
>
> However I would like to see the text as
>
> Dear Dr. Bennett,
>
> Blorp! Bleep!
>
> Regards,
>
> Mailbot
>
> --
> Mailbot Inc.
> 010101 Bot Boulevard
> Botham City
> Bötland
>
> which is how the text appears in the mail.
>
> The 'ö' in 'Bötland' triggers the encoding - with 'Botland' the text
> printed to the terminal is the same way as that in the mail.
>
> How do I decode the message properly for an terminal which uss UTF-8?

If instead of

mail.set_content(body)

I do

mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")

then I get

Dear Dr. Bennett,

Blorp! Bleep!

--
Mailbot Inc.
010101 Bot Boulevard
Botham City
B=C3=B6tland

That a bit better, but still not what I want since the main text could
also be in German and thus also contain umlauts, etc.

Cheers,

Loris

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On 2021-08-23, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> If instead of
>
> mail.set_content(body)
>
> I do
>
> mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")

Try print(mail.get_content()) rather than print(mail.as_string())

Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:

> On 2021-08-23, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>> If instead of
>>
>> mail.set_content(body)
>>
>> I do
>>
>> mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")
>
> Try print(mail.get_content()) rather than print(mail.as_string())

That did the trick - thanks!

Cheers,

Loris

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Il 23/08/2021 13:12, Loris Bennett ha scritto:
> Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:
>
>> On 2021-08-23, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>> If instead of
>>>
>>> mail.set_content(body)
>>>
>>> I do
>>>
>>> mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")
>>
>> Try print(mail.get_content()) rather than print(mail.as_string())
>
> That did the trick - thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Loris
>

If you also want to know about the text, then that is probably utf8
encoded and converted to base64:

from base64 import b64decode

coded=(b'RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEl'
b'uYy4KMDEwMTAxIEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK')

uncoded = b64decode(coded).decode('utf8')
print(uncoded)

output:

Dear Dr. Bennett,

Blorp! Bleep!

--
Mailbot Inc.
010101 Bot Boulevard
Botham City
Bötland

jak <nospam@please.ty> writes:

> Il 23/08/2021 13:12, Loris Bennett ha scritto:
>> Jon Ribbens <jon+usenet@unequivocal.eu> writes:
>>
>>> On 2021-08-23, Loris Bennett <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>>>> If instead of
>>>>
>>>> mail.set_content(body)
>>>>
>>>> I do
>>>>
>>>> mail.set_content(body, cte="quoted-printable")
>>>
>>> Try print(mail.get_content()) rather than print(mail.as_string())
>>
>> That did the trick - thanks!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Loris
>>
>
>
> If you also want to know about the text, then that is probably utf8
> encoded and converted to base64:
>
> from base64 import b64decode
>
> coded=(b'RGVhciBEci4gQmVubmV0dCwKCkJsb3JwISBCbGVlcCEKCgotLQpNYWlsYm90IEl'
> b'uYy4KMDEwMTAxIEJvdCBCb3VsZXZhcmQKQm90aGFtIENpdHkKQsO2dGxhbmQK')
>
> uncoded = b64decode(coded).decode('utf8')
> print(uncoded)
>
> output:
>
> Dear Dr. Bennett,
>
> Blorp! Bleep!
>
>
> --
> Mailbot Inc.
> 010101 Bot Boulevard
> Botham City
> Bötland

Thanks! I don't need that right now, but it's good to know which
decoding hoop I would have to jump through, if I did.

Cheers,

Loris

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