[Tutor] Te: [Tutor] Email Attachment

[Michael P. Reilly]

> Hi,
> 
>  How do I write a script that send a email with attachment (ascii or
> binary), tried smtplib but doesn't support attachment, tried
> MimeWriter.py but couldn't send mail. Just need a simple component or
> wrapper to do the job, please help or any useful links.
> 
> Thanks
> 

I would suggest a combination of (c)StringIO, smtplib and MimeWriter.

from smtplib import SMTP
from MimeWriter import MimeWriter
try:
  from cStringIO import StringIO
except ImportError:
  from StringIO import StringIO

tempfile = StringIO()
mw = MimeWriter(tempfile)
mw.addheader('to', 'tutor@python.org')
mw.addheader('from', 'arcege@shore.net')
mw.addheader('subject', '[Tutor] Email attachment')
mw.startmultipartbody('mixed')
for filename in files_to_attach:
  sw = mw.nextpart()
  f = sw.startbody('application/x-python')
  f.write(open(filename).read())
mw.lastpart()

message = tempfile.getvalue()
SMTP('mailhost').sendmail('arcege@shore.net', 'tutor@python.org', message)

Gee, I hope I haven't given too much of the fun stuff away. :)

You can also look at my mimecntl module to do some more of this for you.
(http://www.shore.net/~arcege/python/mimecntl.py)

  -Arcege

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