A module to send email simply in Python
Project description
Here are some of the features:
Single class to send plain text, HTML email, and attachments
Auto detects attachment types
Support for internationalized headers
Changes in version 0.3
The API for Mailer.To is changed. Use a string to specify a single recipient, and an iterable to specify more than one.
Changes in version 0.4
You can now specify the port in Mailer
from mailer import Mailer sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com', port=20)
Changes in version 0.5
Message.attach takes an optional cid argument.
You can now send HTML emails with attachments
Thanks to Douglas Mayle for his patch for this.
Changes in version 0.6
Can now select port
Supports gmail
Changes in version 0.7
You can now specify MIME type:
msg.attach("picture.png", mimetype="image/png")
Changes in version 0.8
Various bug fixes
Examples
Sending an HTML email:
from mailer import Mailer from mailer import Message message = Message(From="me@example.com", To="you@example.com", charset="utf-8") message.Subject = "An HTML Email" message.Html = """This email uses <strong>HTML</strong>!""" message.Body = """This is alternate text.""" sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com') sender.send(message)
Sending an attachment:
from mailer import Mailer from mailer import Message message = Message(From="me@example.com", To=["you@example.com", "him@example.com"], Subject="Cute Cat") message.Body = """Kittens with dynamite""" message.attach("kitty.jpg") sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com') sender.send(message)
Tested with Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6