The following Python function works for outlook, gmail and my shared hosting exim server but when sending mail through yahoo.com it returns this error:
APPEND command error: BAD ['[CLIENTBUG] Additional arguments found after last expected argument']. Data: FHDJ4 APPEND inbox.sent "31-Aug-2016 12:30:45 +0100" {155}
For comparison, outlook returns:
('OK', ['[APPENDUID 105 2] APPEND completed.'])
Gmail returns:
('OK', ['[APPENDUID 14 2] (Success)'])
and Exim returns:
('OK', ['[APPENDUID 1472211409 44] Append completed (0.788 + 0.076 secs).'])
My function uses imaplib2, the arguments passed to it are all strings, and self.username is the sending email address as address@domain.com
My function is:
def send_mail(self, to_addrs, subject, msgtext, verbose=False):
# build message to send
msg = email.message.Message()
msg.set_unixfrom('pymotw')
msg['From'] = self.username
msg['To'] = to_addrs
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg.set_payload(msgtext)
if verbose: print("Sending Mail:\n ", msg)
# connect and send message
server = self.connect_smtp()
server.ehlo()
server.login(self.username, self.password)
server.sendmail(self.username, to_addrs, str(msg))
server.quit()
print("Saving mail to sent")
sentbox_connection = self.imap_connection
print(sentbox_connection.select('inbox.sent'))
print(sentbox_connection.append('inbox.sent', None, imaplib2.Time2Internaldate(time.time()) , str(msg)))
I've tried generating the msg variable with this line instead:
msg = "From: %s\r\n" % self.username + "To: %s\r\n" % to_addrs + "Subject: %s\r\n" % subject + "\r\n" + msgtext
and appending the message using "" instead of None like so:
print(sentbox_connection.append('inbox.sent', None, imaplib2.Time2Internaldate(time.time()) , str(msg)))
Can you tell me what I'm doing wrong? Or if Yahoo has a specific way of handling append commands that I need to account for?
Edit: To clarify, sending the mail works OK for all smtp servers, but appending the sent mail to inbox.sent fails for yahoo
