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Add email example how to send a multipart message. 

Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.
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Georg Brandl 2008-02-02 10:49:58 +00:00
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#! /usr/bin/python
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == my email address
# you == recipient's email address
me = "my@email.com"
you = "your@email.com"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttp://www.python.org"
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>Hi!<br>
How are you?<br>
Here is the <a href="http://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted.
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
s.close()

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Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email
message: [1]_
message: [1]_
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py
And finally, here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one
Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one
above, into a directory of files:
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py
Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain
text version: [2]_
.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py
.. rubric:: Footnotes
.. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples.
.. [2] Contributed by Martin Matejek.