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Here are a few examples of how to use the email package to read, write, and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages.
First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message:
# Import smtplib for the actual sending function import smtplib # Import the email modules we'll need from email.MIMEText import MIMEText # Open a plain text file for reading. For this example, assume that # the text file contains only ASCII characters. fp = open(textfile, 'rb') # Create a text/plain message msg = MIMEText(fp.read()) fp.close() # me == the sender's email address # you == the recipient's email address msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile msg['From'] = me msg['To'] = you # Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the # envelope header. s = smtplib.SMTP() s.connect() s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string()) s.close()
Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family pictures that may be residing in a directory:
# Import smtplib for the actual sending function
import smtplib
# Here are the email pacakge modules we'll need
from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
COMMASPACE = ', '
# Create the container (outer) email message.
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
# me == the sender's email address
# family = the list of all recipients' email addresses
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)
msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'
# Guarantees the message ends in a newline
msg.epilogue = ''
# Assume we know that the image files are all in PNG format
for file in pngfiles:
# Open the files in binary mode. Let the MIMEImage class automatically
# guess the specific image type.
fp = open(file, 'rb')
img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
fp.close()
msg.attach(img)
# Send the email via our own SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP()
s.connect()
s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
s.close()
Here's an example12.4 of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email message:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message.
Usage: dirmail [options] from to [to ...]*
Options:
-h / --help
Print this message and exit.
-d directory
--directory=directory
Mail the contents of the specified directory, otherwise use the
current directory. Only the regular files in the directory are sent,
and we don't recurse to subdirectories.
`from' is the email address of the sender of the message.
`to' is the email address of the recipient of the message, and multiple
recipients may be given.
The email is sent by forwarding to your local SMTP server, which then does the
normal delivery process. Your local machine must be running an SMTP server.
"""
import sys
import os
import getopt
import smtplib
# For guessing MIME type based on file name extension
import mimetypes
from email import Encoders
from email.Message import Message
from email.MIMEAudio import MIMEAudio
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
COMMASPACE = ', '
def usage(code, msg=''):
print >> sys.stderr, __doc__
if msg:
print >> sys.stderr, msg
sys.exit(code)
def main():
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hd:', ['help', 'directory='])
except getopt.error, msg:
usage(1, msg)
dir = os.curdir
for opt, arg in opts:
if opt in ('-h', '--help'):
usage(0)
elif opt in ('-d', '--directory'):
dir = arg
if len(args) < 2:
usage(1)
sender = args[0]
recips = args[1:]
# Create the enclosing (outer) message
outer = MIMEMultipart()
outer['Subject'] = 'Contents of directory %s' % os.path.abspath(dir)
outer['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(recips)
outer['From'] = sender
outer.preamble = 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'
# To guarantee the message ends with a newline
outer.epilogue = ''
for filename in os.listdir(dir):
path = os.path.join(dir, filename)
if not os.path.isfile(path):
continue
# Guess the content type based on the file's extension. Encoding
# will be ignored, although we should check for simple things like
# gzip'd or compressed files.
ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
if ctype is None or encoding is not None:
# No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so
# use a generic bag-of-bits type.
ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)
if maintype == 'text':
fp = open(path)
# Note: we should handle calculating the charset
msg = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
elif maintype == 'image':
fp = open(path, 'rb')
msg = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
elif maintype == 'audio':
fp = open(path, 'rb')
msg = MIMEAudio(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
else:
fp = open(path, 'rb')
msg = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
msg.set_payload(fp.read())
fp.close()
# Encode the payload using Base64
Encoders.encode_base64(msg)
# Set the filename parameter
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
outer.attach(msg)
# Now send the message
s = smtplib.SMTP()
s.connect()
s.sendmail(sender, recips, outer.as_string())
s.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
And finally, here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one above, into a directory of files:
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""Unpack a MIME message into a directory of files.
Usage: unpackmail [options] msgfile
Options:
-h / --help
Print this message and exit.
-d directory
--directory=directory
Unpack the MIME message into the named directory, which will be
created if it doesn't already exist.
msgfile is the path to the file containing the MIME message.
"""
import sys
import os
import getopt
import errno
import mimetypes
import email
def usage(code, msg=''):
print >> sys.stderr, __doc__
if msg:
print >> sys.stderr, msg
sys.exit(code)
def main():
try:
opts, args = getopt.getopt(sys.argv[1:], 'hd:', ['help', 'directory='])
except getopt.error, msg:
usage(1, msg)
dir = os.curdir
for opt, arg in opts:
if opt in ('-h', '--help'):
usage(0)
elif opt in ('-d', '--directory'):
dir = arg
try:
msgfile = args[0]
except IndexError:
usage(1)
try:
os.mkdir(dir)
except OSError, e:
# Ignore directory exists error
if e.errno <> errno.EEXIST: raise
fp = open(msgfile)
msg = email.message_from_file(fp)
fp.close()
counter = 1
for part in msg.walk():
# multipart/* are just containers
if part.get_content_maintype() == 'multipart':
continue
# Applications should really sanitize the given filename so that an
# email message can't be used to overwrite important files
filename = part.get_filename()
if not filename:
ext = mimetypes.guess_extension(part.get_type())
if not ext:
# Use a generic bag-of-bits extension
ext = '.bin'
filename = 'part-%03d%s' % (counter, ext)
counter += 1
fp = open(os.path.join(dir, filename), 'wb')
fp.write(part.get_payload(decode=1))
fp.close()
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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