using the email module

Thu Sep 28 14:33:57 EDT 2006

On 28/09/06, Erik Johnson <ej <at at bag.python.org>wellkeeper dot
<"com>"@bag.python.org> wrote:

> #!/usr/bin/env python
>
> import smtplib
> from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
> from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
>
>
> # GLOBAL DATA
> #=============
> MAIL_SERVER  = 'your_server.com'
> MAIL_SUBJECT = "Python.SMTP email test"
> MAIL_TO      = 'your_addr at example.com'
> MAIL_FROM    = "Python.SMTP email test"
>
>
> # Create a text/plain message
>
> Body = """\
> This is intended to be the body of my email. The HTML below should not
> be seen directly in the body but should be a separate attachment.
> """
>
> msg = MIMEMultipart()
> msg['Subject'] = MAIL_SUBJECT
> msg['From']    = MAIL_FROM
> msg['To']      = MAIL_TO
> msg.preamble   = Body
>
>
> html = """\
> <html>
> <head>
>   <title>Sample HTML File</title>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>   <h1>Can you see this?</h1>
>   <p>This is a short paragraph.</p>
> </body>
>
> </html>
> """

html_part = MIMEText(html, _subtype='html')
html_part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
filename='my_text.html')
msg.attach(html_part)

># msg.attach(MIMEText(html, 'html'))
> # print msg.as_string()
>
>
> # Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
> # envelope header.
> smtp = smtplib.SMTP(MAIL_SERVER)
> smtp.sendmail(MAIL_FROM, [MAIL_TO], msg.as_string())
> smtp.close()
> # end of python script
>