I'm using information found on this post Sending Email Using Python
So far the instructions were perfect. I have two additional things I'd like to do:
The variable would be todays date. This is it:
today = datetime.datetime.today ()
tday = today.strftime ("%m-%d-%Y")
I know that with mailx, you can attach with the -a option.
To call the variables inside the html body ,just convert them to string to concatenate them in the body
from datetime import datetime
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
today = datetime.today ()
tday = today.strftime ("%m-%d-%Y")
# email subject, from , to will be defined here
msg = MIMEMultipart()
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>Hi!<br>
How are you?<br>
""" +str(today)+ """ and """ +str(tday)+ """
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
msg.attach(MIMEText(html, 'html'))
For attachments please look at http://naelshiab.com/tutorial-send-email-python/
EDIT : The link provided above seems not available, so the code snippet for sending attachments via email (specifically from gmail) is below
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = "from email address"
msg['To'] = "to email address"
msg['Subject'] = "Subject line"
body = """Body
content"""
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
attachment = open("/path/to/file", "rb")
p = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
# To change the payload into encoded form
p.set_payload((attachment).read())
# encode into base64
encoders.encode_base64(p)
p.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)
# attach the instance 'p' to instance 'msg'
msg.attach(p)
s = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
s.starttls() # for security
s.login("from email address", "your password")
text = msg.as_string()
# sending the mail
s.sendmail("from email address", "to email address" , text)
s.quit()
Note : Google will some times block logins from other application (less secure apps) so there is a need to allow this access in your Google account settings https://myaccount.google.com/u/1/lesssecureapps?pli=1&pageId=none
<script> content, this won't perform proper escaping to ensure that the inserted content is viewed as text rather than rendered by the browser.
For your first question: There are lots of ways to create strings that make use of variables.
Some ways are:
body = "blablabla " + tday + " bloo bloo bloo"
body = "Today's date is {}, in case you wondered".format(tday)
For your second question you'd have to tell us which library / module you're using, and then you could go to that module's documentation page and see if there's something for adding an attachment.
Thanks to everyone for posting tips.
For posterity, this is the working script.
The only remaining item is that I need to be able to send the same email to multiple people.
I've tried to add all of the email addresses to the variable with commas between, but they're not getting it. When I look at my email received, they appear to be in the To line. Is it possible that it's only sending to the first email address listed?
#!/usr/bin/python
import smtplib
import time
import datetime
from datetime import date
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
fromaddr = "[email protected]"
toaddr = ['[email protected]', '[email protected]']
# Date
today = datetime.datetime.today ()
tday = today.strftime ("%m-%d-%Y")
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = ", ".join(toaddr)
msg['Subject'] = "My Subject Goes Here"
body = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>DO NOT REPLY TO THIS EMAIL!!<br>
<br>
Script run for data as of """ + tday + """.<br>
<br>
See attachment for items to discuss<br>
<br>
The files have also been uploaded to <a href="http://testing.com/getit">SharePoint</a><br>
<br>
If you have any issues, email [email protected]<br>
<br>
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'html'))
filename = "discuss.csv"
attachment = open("discuss.csv", "rb")
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)
msg.attach(part)
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()