Doc/includes/email-alternative.py

   1 #! /usr/bin/python
   2
   3 import smtplib
   4
   5 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
   6 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
   7
   8 # me == my email address
   9 # you == recipient's email address
  10 me = "my@email.com"
  11 you = "your@email.com"
  12
  13 # Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
  14 msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
  15 msg['Subject'] = "Link"
  16 msg['From'] = me
  17 msg['To'] = you
  18
  19 # Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
  20 text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttp://www.python.org"
  21 html = """\
  22 <html>
  23   <head></head>
  24   <body>
  25     <p>Hi!<br>
  26        How are you?<br>
  27        Here is the <a href="http://www.python.org">link</a> you wanted.
  28     </p>
  29   </body>
  30 </html>
  31 """
  32
  33 # Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
  34 part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
  35 part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
  36
  37 # Attach parts into message container.
  38 # According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
  39 # the HTML message, is best and preferred.
  40 msg.attach(part1)
  41 msg.attach(part2)
  42
  43 # Send the message via local SMTP server.
  44 s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
  45 # sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
  46 # and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
  47 s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
  48 s.quit()