smtplib send email has no timestamp

[IslaBrown]

I found out that the issue maybe related to the email headers. Specifically, the Date header wasn't being set correctly in email message, which is why it defaulted to the Unix epoch time.

Here's the updated code that can solve the issue:

python
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import smtplib, ssl
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.utils import formatdate

# Load email addresses from JSON or other source
customer_emails = ["[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]", "[email protected]"]

smtp_server = "smtp.qq.com"
port = 465
sender_email = "[email protected]"
password = "your_password"

# Create the email message
message = MIMEMultipart()
message["From"] = sender_email
message["Subject"] = "Test Email"
message.attach(MIMEText("This is a test email.", "plain"))
message["Date"] = formatdate(localtime=True)

context = ssl.create_default_context()

with smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtp_server, port, context=context) as server:
    server.login(sender_email, password)
    for e in customer_emails:
        print(f'email is {e}')
        server.sendmail(sender_email, e, message.as_string())
        print(f'email sent to {e}')

Adding the Date header with formatdate(localtime=True) ensures that the current local time is correctly set in the email header.

deanhystad write Jun-10-2024, 02:28 PM:
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