Opened 17 years ago

Closed 17 years ago

#3985 closed (fixed)

send_mail user-defined headers

Reported by: ido Owned by: Adrian Holovaty
Component: Core (Mail) Version: dev
Severity: Keywords: custom headers
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: yes
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

How do send_mail, send_mass_mail, etc. permit one to define custom headers (such as for S/MIME, List-Id, etc.) in the outgoing email message?

This is a critical component of sending email that should not be overlooked in these docs.

Attachments (3)

mail-additional_headers.diff (2.1 KB ) - added by meren@… 17 years ago.
work also with additional headers if there is any..
mail-additional_headers.2.diff (2.1 KB ) - added by meren@… 17 years ago.
less messy..
mail-additional_headers.3.diff (4.3 KB ) - added by Chris Beaven 17 years ago.
backwards compatibility and documentation

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Change History (8)

by meren@…, 17 years ago

work also with additional headers if there is any..

comment:1 by meren@…, 17 years ago

I'm using django with this, 'mail-additional_headers.diff' patch to be able to pass additional headers to the mails.

import django.core.mail as mailer

(...)

hdict = {"Reply-To": reply_to_addr, 'List-ID': list_id}
mailer.send_mail(sbj, msg, from, recipient_list, additional_headers_dict=hdict)

I know that this is a very dirty way to do this but at least it works for me and not breaks anything. Also IMHO, mail.py should be redesigned from scratch.

I just wanted to share,
Thanks.

comment:2 by Chris Beaven, 17 years ago

Has patch: set
Summary: what about user-defined headers?send_mail user-defined headers
Triage Stage: UnreviewedDesign decision needed

comment:3 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 17 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set
Triage Stage: Design decision neededAccepted

A low priority change (after all, you have access to all of Python's mail infrastructure if you want it), but may be worth adding. I'm probably about +0.5 on this.

The patch needs improvement, though. There must be a less messy way to write the change at line 88.

by meren@…, 17 years ago

less messy..

by Chris Beaven, 17 years ago

backwards compatibility and documentation

comment:4 by anonymous, 17 years ago

Would there be any interest in renaming additional_headers_dict to something shorter? It's a little verbose. Perhaps something like extra_headers?

comment:5 by Malcolm Tredinnick, 17 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

(In [5550]) Fixed #3985 -- Added support for custom email headers.

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