Create and display an email

[Gregory Piñero]

I looked into this same question many months ago and got stuck just where 
you are. Indeed the webbrowser.open('mailto:...') command seems like a great 
idea, but I lost 6 hours of my life trying to figure out how to do 
attachments :-(
Here's my guess at what your two best options are:

1. Work with outlook through it's COM interface to send an email.
2. Build email sending right into your application. It's not hard to do, and 
your app could allow the user to save the email to send later if they're not 
online. Here's a simple email sending script I put together a while back. 
http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/how-to-send-emails-with-python/19
It might be a good starting point.

-Greg


On 13 Sep 2005 16:30:59 -0700, Adam Endicott <leftwing17 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I've got a wxPython based windows GUI application that takes some input
> and creates a PDF file output. At the end, I need to create an email
> message with this pdf file attached ready for the user to just hit
> "send". I don't want to actually send the email automatically, I just
> want to pop up a message in the default mail program that's ready to go
> (partially because the person might not be online when the email is
> created, this way they could just put it in their Outlook outbox).
> 
> I can't figure out how to do this. I've tried using
> webbrowser.open('mailto:...'), which works, except that I can't add an
> attachment that way (at least I haven't been successful). And I don't
> know any other way to open up a message in the default mail program.
> 
> There has to be something obvious that I'm missing here. Any
> suggestions?
> 
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Gregory Piñero
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