Add 'From header' to email?

Question

I'm trying to send a email to a gmail account from a non-gmail email address, but I get the following error:

Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

Our system has detected that this message is
    550-5.7.1 not RFC 5322 compliant:
    550-5.7.1 'From' header is missing.

Here is my code:

import smtplib
import ssl
import getpass

port = 465  # For SSL
smtp_server = "website.net"
sender_email = "foo@website.net"
receiver_email = "foo@gmail.com"
password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Type your password and press enter: ')
message = "This message is sent from Python."

context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL(smtp_server, port, context=context) as server:
    server.login(sender_email, password)
    server.sendmail(sender_email, receiver_email, message)

I'm able to send emails to myself, but sending them to a gmail address gives me that 'From' header is missing error. How and were do I add that?

Take a look on [this](https://stackoverflow.com/a/26717984/10824407) answer. — Olvin Roght, Mar 15 '21 at 19:18

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:17

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Add the headers to the message variable.

message = f"""From: {sender_email}
To: {receiver_email}

This message is sent from Python."""

You should also add a To: header. Otherwise the recipients will be treated as BCC.

answered Mar 15 '21 at 19:17

Barmar

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It should work, but I'd recommend to use built-in [`email`](https://docs.python.org/3/library/email.header.html) module for building message. – Olvin Roght Mar 15 '21 at 19:20
Nvm, its working! Thanks! – Have a nice day Mar 15 '21 at 19:25

Add 'From header' to email?

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