japanese email subject encoding

Question

Aparently, encoding japanese emails is somewhat challenging, which I am slowly discovering myself. In case there are any experts (even those with limited experience will do)

Answer 1

something like this should get the job done in python:

#!/usr/bin/python                                                                                                            
# -*- mode: python; coding: utf-8 -*-                                                                                        
import smtplib
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Header import Header
from email.Utils import formatdate

def send_from_gmail( from_addr, to_addr, subject, body, password, encoding="iso-2022-jp" ):

    msg = MIMEText(body.encode(encoding), 'plain', encoding)
    msg['Subject'] = Header(subject.encode(encoding), encoding)
    msg['From'] = from_addr
    msg['To'] = to_addr
    msg['Date'] = formatdate()

    s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
    s.ehlo(); s.starttls(); s.ehlo()

    s.login(from_addr, password)
    s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, msg.as_string())
    s.close()
    return "Sent mail to: %s" % to_addr



if __name__ == "__main__":
    import sys
    for n,item in enumerate(sys.argv):
        sys.argv[n] = sys.argv[n].decode("utf8")

    if len(sys.argv)==6:
        print send_from_gmail( sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], sys.argv[5] )
    elif len(sys.argv)==7:
        print send_from_gmail( sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2], sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], sys.argv[5], encoding=sys.argv[6] )
    else:
        raise "SYNTAX: %s      [encoding]"

**blatantly stolen/adapted from:

http://mtokyo.blog9.fc2.com/blog-entry-127.html