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How to send Email Attachments with python

Answer 1

A:

from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
import smtplib

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg.attach(MIMEText(file("text.txt").read()))
msg.attach(MIMEImage(file("image.png").read()))

# to send
mailer = smtplib.SMTP()
mailer.connect()
mailer.sendmail(from_, to, msg.as_string())
mailer.close()

Adapted from here.

Oli 2010-07-29 12:59:19

Not quite what I am looking for. The file was sent as the body of an email. There is also missing brackets on line 6 and 7. I feel that we are getting closer though

Richard 2010-07-29 13:23:22

Emails are plain text, and that's what `smtplib` supports. To send attachments, you encode them as a MIME message and send them in a plaintext email.There's a new python email module, though: http://docs.python.org/library/email.mime.html

katrielalex 2010-07-29 13:33:19

@katrienlalex a working example would go a long way to help my understanding

Richard 2010-07-29 13:52:25

I guess I should add that I am using python 2.4

Richard 2010-07-29 13:52:45

Are you sure the above example doesn't work? I don't have a SMTP server handy, but I looked at `msg.as_string()` and it certainly looks like the body of a MIME multipart email. Wikipedia explains MIME: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME

katrielalex 2010-07-29 14:04:09

@katrielalex Thanks for the resource. Even though I have a working snip of code, I still am not sure whats happening here. This should help my understanding a bit.

Richard 2010-07-29 14:34:44

Answer 2

+1 A:

Here's another snip from here:

import smtplib, os
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
from email import Encoders

def send_mail(send_from, send_to, subject, text, files=[], server="localhost"):
    assert type(send_to)==list
    assert type(files)==list

    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = send_from
    msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(send_to)
    msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach( MIMEText(text) )

    for f in files:
        part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
        part.set_payload( open(file,"rb").read() )
        Encoders.encode_base64(part)
        part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(f))
        msg.attach(part)

    smtp = smtplib.SMTP(server)
    smtp.sendmail(send_from, send_to, msg.as_string())
    smtp.close()

It's much the same as the first example... But it should be easier to drop in.

Oli 2010-07-29 14:00:15

Thanks for you help. I just started to post my own answer when I saw yours. It ended up to be pretty much the same

Richard 2010-07-29 14:31:54

Answer 3

+1 A:

this is the code I ended up using:

import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import Encoders


SUBJECT = "Email Data"

msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = SUBJECT 
msg['From'] = self.EMAIL_FROM
msg['To'] = ', '.join(self.EMAIL_TO)

part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
part.set_payload(open("text.txt", "rb").read())
Encoders.encode_base64(part)

part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="text.txt"')

msg.attach(part)

server = smtplib.SMTP(self.EMAIL_SERVER)
server.sendmail(self.EMAIL_FROM, self.EMAIL_TO, msg.as_string())

Code is much the same as Oli's post. Thanks all

Code based from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2798470/binary-file-email-attachment-problem post.

Richard 2010-07-29 14:29:52

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