need guidance on sending emails with attachment with python.

ina erinhouston at gmail.com
Tue Dec 12 18:04:14 EST 2006


I put to gether a class to deal with this along time ago it might be of
help to you.
You can find it at
http://phlik.ishpeck.net/index.php?P=b1114201575phlik.

krishnakant Mane wrote:
> 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.




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