Send Email with 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding

Send an email using the "8bit" content-transfer-encoding.

Download Chilkat Python Library

import sys
import chilkat

#  The mailman object is used for sending and receiving email.
mailman = chilkat.CkMailMan()

#  Any string argument automatically begins the 30-day trial.
success = mailman.UnlockComponent("30-day trial")
if (success != True):
    print "Component unlock failed"
    sys.exit()

#  Set the SMTP server.
mailman.put_SmtpHost("smtp.comcast.net")

#  Create a new email object
email = chilkat.CkEmail()

email.put_Subject("This is a test")
#  The equals character is encoded as =3D in quoted-printable.
#  If the encoding is truly 8bit, we won't see it in the MIME source
#  of the email.  Instead, we'll see the equals character unmodified.
email.put_Body("This is a test ===")
email.put_From("Chilkat Support <support@chilkatsoft.com>")
email.AddTo("Chilkat Admin","admin@chilkatsoft.com")

#  Set our content-transfer-encoding to 8bit:
#  The AddHeaderField will replace the header field if it
#  already exists.
email.AddHeaderField("content-transfer-encoding","8bit")

#  That's it... send the email and the HTML and/or plain-text body
#  will not be encoded using quoted-printable or base64 -- it
#  will instead be sent unencoded as 8-bit characters.
success = mailman.SendEmail(email)
if (success != True):
    print mailman.lastErrorText()
else:
    print "Mail Sent!"

#  To see the exact MIME of the email sent, call
#  mailman.RenderToMime:

mimeSource = mailman.renderToMime(email)
print "MIME source of email just sent"
print mimeSource