SMTP - Attachments
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Links
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- `python Documentation, email Examples`_
- http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/757

Sample
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A nice sample (attaching one file) is here: ``bin/calibre-web-page.py``.  This
sample was copied from `python Documentation, email Examples`_.

Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family
pictures that may be residing in a directory:

::

  # Import smtplib for the actual sending function
  import smtplib

  # Here are the email package modules we'll need
  from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
  from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

  COMMASPACE = ', '

  # Create the container (outer) email message.
  msg = MIMEMultipart()
  msg['Subject'] = 'Our family reunion'
  # me == the sender's email address
  # family = the list of all recipients' email addresses
  msg['From'] = me
  msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(family)
  msg.preamble = 'Our family reunion'

  # Assume we know that the image files are all in PNG format
  for file in pngfiles:
      # Open the files in binary mode.  Let the MIMEImage class automatically
      # guess the specific image type.
      fp = open(file, 'rb')
      img = MIMEImage(fp.read())
      fp.close()
      msg.attach(img)

  # Send the email via our own SMTP server.
  s = smtplib.SMTP()
  s.sendmail(me, family, msg.as_string())
  s.quit()


.. _`python Documentation, email Examples`: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html