Doc/lib/email-mime.py

   1 # Import smtplib for the actual sending function
   2 import smtplib
   3
   4 # Here are the email pacakge modules we'll need
   5 from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
   6 from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
   7
   8 COMMASPACE = ', '
   9
  10 # Create the container (outer) email message.
  11 msg = MIMEMultipart()
  12 msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
  13 # me == the sender's email address
  14 # family = the list of all recipients' email addresses
  15 msg['From'] = me
  16 msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)
  17 msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'
  18 # Guarantees the message ends in a newline
  19 msg.epilogue = ''
  20
  21 # Assume we know that the image files are all in PNG format
  22 for file in pngfiles:
  23     # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
  24     # guess the specific image type.
  25     fp = open(file, 'rb')
  26     img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
  27     fp.close()
  28     msg.attach(img)
  29
  30 # Send the email via our own SMTP server.
  31 s = smtplib.SMTP()
  32 s.connect()
  33 s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
  34 s.close()