Add email example how to send a multipart message.

Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.

Add email example how to send a multipart message.
Written for GHOP by Martin Matejek.
48b9ef77 · Georg Brandl · 556b75cb · 48b9ef77 · 48b9ef77
Commit 48b9ef77 authored Feb 02, 2008 by Georg Brandl
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--- a/Doc/includes/email-alternative.py
+++ b/Doc/includes/email-alternative.py
+#! /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()
--- a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst
@@ -16,18 +16,23 @@ pictures that may be residing in a directory:


 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.