need guidance on sending emails with attachment with python.

[Richard Charts]

krishnakant Mane wrote:
> On 11 Dec 2006 04:54:04 -0800, Bernard <bernard.chhun at gmail.com> wrote:
> > here's the function I've been using for while :P
> >
> thanks indeed for the function Bernard.
> I will have a windows machine up tomorrow.  but do I need to install
> any thing over and above the python libraries needed?
> is it necessary that I install outlook or do I need to install any
> server/ client on the machine where your function is to be used?
> > import smtplib
> > from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
> > from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
> > from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
> > from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
> > from email import Encoders
> >
> > def sendMail(arrRecipients, sender, subject, message, files=[]):
> >     """ Sends email with attachements """
> >     # SMTP address
> >     smtpserver = '' # provide a smtp here in string format
> >     # authentification section
> >     AUTHREQUIRED = 0 # if you need to use SMTP AUTH set to 1
> >     smtpuser = ''  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP username here
> >     smtppass = ''  # for SMTP AUTH, set SMTP password here
> >
> >     # Building the body of the email
> >     mssg = MIMEMultipart()
> >     mssg['From'] = sender
> >     mssg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(arrRecipients)
> >     mssg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
> >     mssg['Subject'] = subject
> >     mssg.attach( MIMEText(message) )
> >
> >     # attachments
> >     for file in files:
> >         part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
> >         part.set_payload( open(file,"rb").read() )
> >         Encoders.encode_base64(part)
> >         part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment;
> > filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(file))
> >         mssg.attach(part)
> >
> >     session = smtplib.SMTP(smtpserver)
> >     if AUTHREQUIRED:
> >         session.login(smtpuser, smtppass)
> >     smtpresult = session.sendmail(sender, arrRecipients,
> > mssg.as_string())
> >
> >     if smtpresult:
> >         errstr = ""
> >         for recip in smtpresult.keys():
> >             errstr = """Could not delivery mail to: %s
> >
> >     Server said: %s
> >     %s
> >
> >     %s""" % (recip, smtpresult[recip][0], smtpresult[recip][1], errstr)
> >         raise smtplib.SMTPException, errstr
> >
> > krishnakant Mane a écrit :
> >
> > > hello,
> > > I am a bit confused.
> > > I want to make a program that will take some data from a database and
> > > make a string of text.  and send it to the respective email id of a
> > > person.
> > > next I also want to send an attachment of a photo along with the email.
> > > I will be required to make this program run on windows xp.
> > > can some one guide me as to how I can achieve this?
> > > what I will need on windows to send emails?
> > > I believe yahoo, gmail, rediff and msn supports pop3 and smtp?
> > > correct me if I am wrong on this.
> > > secondly what library is used on windows to do this?
> > > I know there must be python libraries to do this,
> > > but apart from that I don't know what all I will need on my windows
> > > machine to send emails to mostly yahoo, gmail and msn.
> > > Please give me some idea about it.
> > > Krishnakant.
> >
> >
> >

You will need some working email account.
It could be a server on your local machine or it could be a gmail
account.
If you don't have an email account that you want to send from, then you
will have to either obtain one or create your own server.