Doc/lib/email-simple.py

   1 # Import smtplib for the actual sending function
   2 import smtplib
   3
   4 # Import the email modules we'll need
   5 from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
   6
   7 # Open a plain text file for reading.  For this example, assume that
   8 # the text file contains only ASCII characters.
   9 fp = open(textfile, 'rb')
  10 # Create a text/plain message
  11 msg = MIMEText(fp.read())
  12 fp.close()
  13
  14 # me == the sender's email address
  15 # you == the recipient's email address
  16 msg['Subject'] = 'The contents of %s' % textfile
  17 msg['From'] = me
  18 msg['To'] = you
  19
  20 # Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
  21 # envelope header.
  22 s = smtplib.SMTP()
  23 s.connect()
  24 s.sendmail(me, [you], msg.as_string())
  25 s.close()