3 """Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message."""
8 # For guessing MIME type based on file name extension
11 from optparse
import OptionParser
13 from email
import encoders
14 from email
.message
import Message
15 from email
.mime
.audio
import MIMEAudio
16 from email
.mime
.base
import MIMEBase
17 from email
.mime
.image
import MIMEImage
18 from email
.mime
.multipart
import MIMEMultipart
19 from email
.mime
.text
import MIMEText
25 parser
= OptionParser(usage
="""\
26 Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message.
28 Usage: %prog [options]
30 Unless the -o option is given, the email is sent by forwarding to your local
31 SMTP server, which then does the normal delivery process. Your local machine
32 must be running an SMTP server.
34 parser
.add_option('-d', '--directory',
35 type='string', action
='store',
36 help="""Mail the contents of the specified directory,
37 otherwise use the current directory. Only the regular
38 files in the directory are sent, and we don't recurse to
40 parser
.add_option('-o', '--output',
41 type='string', action
='store', metavar
='FILE',
42 help="""Print the composed message to FILE instead of
43 sending the message to the SMTP server.""")
44 parser
.add_option('-s', '--sender',
45 type='string', action
='store', metavar
='SENDER',
46 help='The value of the From: header (required)')
47 parser
.add_option('-r', '--recipient',
48 type='string', action
='append', metavar
='RECIPIENT',
49 default
=[], dest
='recipients',
50 help='A To: header value (at least one required)')
51 opts
, args
= parser
.parse_args()
52 if not opts
.sender
or not opts
.recipients
:
55 directory
= opts
.directory
58 # Create the enclosing (outer) message
59 outer
= MIMEMultipart()
60 outer
['Subject'] = 'Contents of directory %s' % os
.path
.abspath(directory
)
61 outer
['To'] = COMMASPACE
.join(opts
.recipients
)
62 outer
['From'] = opts
.sender
63 outer
.preamble
= 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'
65 for filename
in os
.listdir(directory
):
66 path
= os
.path
.join(directory
, filename
)
67 if not os
.path
.isfile(path
):
69 # Guess the content type based on the file's extension. Encoding
70 # will be ignored, although we should check for simple things like
71 # gzip'd or compressed files.
72 ctype
, encoding
= mimetypes
.guess_type(path
)
73 if ctype
is None or encoding
is not None:
74 # No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so
75 # use a generic bag-of-bits type.
76 ctype
= 'application/octet-stream'
77 maintype
, subtype
= ctype
.split('/', 1)
78 if maintype
== 'text':
80 # Note: we should handle calculating the charset
81 msg
= MIMEText(fp
.read(), _subtype
=subtype
)
83 elif maintype
== 'image':
85 msg
= MIMEImage(fp
.read(), _subtype
=subtype
)
87 elif maintype
== 'audio':
89 msg
= MIMEAudio(fp
.read(), _subtype
=subtype
)
93 msg
= MIMEBase(maintype
, subtype
)
94 msg
.set_payload(fp
.read())
96 # Encode the payload using Base64
97 encoders
.encode_base64(msg
)
98 # Set the filename parameter
99 msg
.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename
=filename
)
101 # Now send or store the message
102 composed
= outer
.as_string()
104 fp
= open(opts
.output
, 'w')
109 s
.sendmail(opts
.sender
, opts
.recipients
, composed
)
113 if __name__
== '__main__':