How to set a charset in email using smtplib in Python 2.7?

Question

I\'m writing a simple smtp-sender with authentification. Here\'s my code

    SMTPserver, sender, destination = \'smtp.googlemail.com\', \'user@gmail.com\', [         


        

Answer 1

You should encode your message-text with UTF-8

msg = MIMEText(content.encode('utf-8'), text_subtype).

More here: http://radix.twistedmatrix.com/2010/07/how-to-send-good-unicode-email-with.html