Bug 1269770 - dnf-automatic generates broken emails
Summary: dnf-automatic generates broken emails
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dnf
Version: 22
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: rpm-software-management
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-10-08 07:57 UTC by Olivier Andrieu
Modified: 2016-07-19 18:08 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2016-07-19 18:08:44 UTC
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Description Olivier Andrieu 2015-10-08 07:57:01 UTC
Description of problem:
The emails sent by dnf-automatic arrive mangled: some headers are shown as part of the message body.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
dnf-1.1.2-4.fc22.noarch

This patch fixes it for me:

--- /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/automatic/emitter.py~	2015-09-22 13:57:12.000000000 +0200
+++ /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/dnf/automatic/emitter.py	2015-10-08 09:39:46.199555624 +0200
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@
         # Send the email
         try:
             smtp = smtplib.SMTP(self._conf.email_host)
-            smtp.sendmail(email_from, email_to, str(message))
+            smtp.sendmail(email_from, email_to, message.as_string())
             smtp.close()
         except smtplib.SMTPException as exc:
             msg = _("Failed to send an email via '%s': %s") % (

Comment 1 Jaroslav Mracek 2015-10-13 14:30:46 UTC
Please could you provide additional information about a problem (headers and body before and after patch) and how we can reproduce it. 
Also please make a pull request with your fix to dnf project on https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf

Comment 2 Olivier Andrieu 2015-10-26 13:15:57 UTC
pull request: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/dnf/pull/373

You can see from python's documentation what's wrong: str() on a message is equivalent to as_string(unixfrom=True) (the default for unixfrom is False). unixfrom makes an envelope header out of the From: header of the message. cf as_string documentation: https://docs.python.org/2/library/email.message.html#email.message.Message.as_string

But that's redundant with sendmail(), which creates an envelope header out of its from_addr argument: https://docs.python.org/2/library/smtplib.html#smtplib.SMTP.sendmail

Note that the examples for the email package all use as_string(), not str(): https://docs.python.org/2/library/email-examples.html

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2016-07-08 09:28:24 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Fedora End Of Life 2016-07-19 18:08:44 UTC
Fedora 22 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2016-07-19. Fedora 22 is
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

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