sending email

[foosion]

I'm trying to send an email using the messaging module from a s60v5 phone

>>> import messaging
>>> messaging.mms_send(u'abc@xyz.com', u'hello', u'e:/file.txt')
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<console>", line 1, in <module>
File "c:\resource\python25\python25.zip\messaging.py", line 87, in mms_send
_messaging.mms_send(unicode(number),unicode(msg),unicode(attachment))
SymbianError: [Errno -28] KErrBadName

I get the same error if I use a number rather than an email address in the first parameter.

I checked with os.listdir that the file exists.

There are a number of similar post about mms_send, but none seem to address this issue

EDIT: I sent an email without an attachment, which went through. badname suggests there's something wrong with the filename of my attachment, which seems to be a problem I'm having.


thanks

[bogdan.galiceanu]

Write the path of the attachment DOS-style, i.e. with backslashes: u'e:\\file.txt'

[foosion]

That worked. Thank you.

Would you know why you need to write e:\\file.txt? Every other place I can think of in Python, e:/file.txt works.

[bogdan.galiceanu]

I don't know. But if I had to guess, I'd say this is an issue that only affects the S60 specific modules. For example, in graphics.Image.open(path), path has to use backslashes. On the other hand, like you said, regular slashes work anywhere else in Python.