I don't fully understand the error, can you describe it more please
On Mon, 27 Mar 2023, 13:54 Sylvain, <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I’m using the following code to send mails to my users, with their name
> appearing in the `To` header:
>
> msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject=subject, body=body,
> to=f"{user.get_full_name()} <{user.email}>")
> msg.send()
>
> It works fine but if you have a special character in your name (such as a
> comma) then `msg.send()` will fail because `sanitize_address` raises an
> exception. Note that this will only fail with the SMTP backend because all
> other backends (such as the console backend) don’t sanitize the address, so
> even if you try to write tests for this case, it won’t fail unless you
> actually use the SMTP backend.
>
> I couldn’t find any indication in the Django docs on how to correctly
> include the name of the recipient in an e-mail so I started digging in the
> code. I found that the `sanitize_address` function (which uses the
> email.headerregistry.parser module of Python’s, which doesn’t seem to be
> documented) accepts either a string or a tuple of (name, address), so I
> thought I could use `to=(user.get_full_name(), user.email)` which seemed
> quite elegant, but doesn’t really work because the value is not sanitized
> before it’s put in the `To` header so it will show up like `(Jane Doe,
> [email protected])` in the recipient mailbox.
>
> However, it seems calling `sanitize_address` directly works, like so:
>
> msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject=subject, body=body,
> to=sanitize_address((user.get_full_name(), user.email),
> settings.DEFAULT_CHARSET))
>
> But since there’s no mention of `sanitize_address` in the Django docs, I’m
> not sure it’s the right way to do it. And since I couldn’t find anything on
> this topic on the internet I think I might be missing something obvious.
> Could anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks!
>
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