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.. _email-examples:
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:mod:`email`: Examples
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Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write,
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and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages.
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First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message (both the
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text content and the addresses may contain unicode characters):
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py
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Parsing :rfc:`822` headers can easily be done by the using the classes
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from the :mod:`~email.parser` module:
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py
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Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family
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pictures that may be residing in a directory:
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py
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Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email
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message: [1]_
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py
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Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one
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above, into a directory of files:
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py
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Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain
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text version. To make things a bit more interesting, we include a related
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image in the html part, and we save a copy of what we are going to send to
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disk, as well as sending it.
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py
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If we were sent the message from the last example, here is one way we could
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process it:
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.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-read-alternative.py
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Up to the prompt, the output from the above is:
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.. code-block:: none
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To: Penelope Pussycat <penelope@example.com>, Fabrette Pussycat <fabrette@example.com>
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From: Pepé Le Pew <pepe@example.com>
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Subject: Pourquoi pas des asperges pour ce midi ?
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Salut!
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Cette recette [1] sera sûrement un très bon repas.
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.. rubric:: Footnotes
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.. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples.
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