Send Email in Python with Text File Attachment

minitotoro (Natalie) — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:23:42 GMT

// description of your code here
Send an email in python with a text attachment. You can change the attachment type by adjusting the part.startbody label in the attachment section (ie, 'image/jpg' or whatever)



import smtplib, sys, MimeWriter, StringIO, base64

import os

def mail(serverURL=None, sender='', to='', subject='', text=''):

    """

    Usage:

    mail('somemailserver.com', 'me@example.com', 'someone@example.com', 'test', 'This is a test')

    """

    message = StringIO.StringIO()

    writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(message)

    writer.addheader('Subject', subject)

    writer.startmultipartbody('mixed')



    # start off with a text/plain part

    part = writer.nextpart()

    body = part.startbody('text/plain')

    body.write(text)



    # now add an attachment

    part = writer.nextpart()

    part.addheader('Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'base64')

    body = part.startbody('text/plain')

    base64.encode(open('myfile.txt', 'rb'), body)



    # finish off

    writer.lastpart()



    # send the mail

    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(serverURL)

    smtp.sendmail(sender, to, message.getvalue())

    smtp.quit()

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