Where is the phpMailer php class equivalent for Python?

Question

i'm new with python.. Actually, i'm trying to send featured email with python: html body, text alternative body, and attachment.

So, i've found this tutorial and adapted it with the gmail authentication (tutorial found here)

The code i have atm, is that:

def createhtmlmail (html, text, subject):
"""Create a mime-message that will render HTML in popular
  MUAs, text in better ones"""
import MimeWriter
import mimetools
import cStringIO
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE, formatdate
from email import Encoders
import os

out = cStringIO.StringIO() # output buffer for our message 
htmlin = cStringIO.StringIO(html)
txtin = cStringIO.StringIO(text)

writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(out)
#
# set up some basic headers... we put subject here
# because smtplib.sendmail expects it to be in the
# message body
#
writer.addheader("Subject", subject)
writer.addheader("MIME-Version", "1.0")
#
# start the multipart section of the message
# multipart/alternative seems to work better
# on some MUAs than multipart/mixed
#
writer.startmultipartbody("alternative")
writer.flushheaders()
#
# the plain text section
#
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
pout = subpart.startbody("text/plain", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(txtin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
txtin.close()
#
# start the html subpart of the message
#
subpart = writer.nextpart()
subpart.addheader("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
#
# returns us a file-ish object we can write to
#
pout = subpart.startbody("text/html", [("charset", 'us-ascii')])
mimetools.encode(htmlin, pout, 'quoted-printable')
htmlin.close()


#
# Now that we're done, close our writer and
# return the message body
#
writer.lastpart()
msg = out.getvalue()
out.close()
return msg

import smtplib
f = open("/path/to/html/version.html", 'r')
html = f.read()
f.close()
f = open("/path/to/txt/version.txt", 'r')
text = f.read()
subject = "Prova email html da python, con allegato!"
message = createhtmlmail(html, text, subject)
gmail_user = "[email protected]"
gmail_pwd = "thegmailpassword"
server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
server.ehlo()
server.starttls()
server.ehlo()
server.login(gmail_user, gmail_pwd)
server.sendmail(gmail_user, "[email protected]", message)
server.close()

and that works.. now only miss the attachment.. And i am not able to add the attachment (from this post)

So, why there is not a python class like phpMailer for php? Is it because, for a medium-able python programmer sending a html email with attachment and alt text body is so easy that a class is not needed? Or is because i just didn't find it?

If i'll be able to wrote a class like that, when i'll be enough good with python, would that be useful for someone?

Answer 1

If you can excuse some blatant self promotion, I wrote a mailer module that makes sending email with Python fairly simple. No dependencies other than the Python smtplib and email libraries.

Here's a simple example for sending an email with an attachment:

from mailer import Mailer
from mailer import Message

message = Message(From="[email protected]",
                  To=["[email protected]", "[email protected]"])
message.Subject = "Kitty with dynamite"
message.Body = """Kitty go boom!"""
message.attach("kitty.jpg")

sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com')
sender.login("username", "password")
sender.send(message)

Edit: Here's an example of sending an HTML email with alternate text. :)

from mailer import Mailer
from mailer import Message

message = Message(From="[email protected]",
                  To="[email protected]",
                  charset="utf-8")
message.Subject = "An HTML Email"
message.Html = """This email uses <strong>HTML</strong>!"""
message.Body = """This is alternate text."""

sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com')
sender.send(message)

Edit 2: Thanks to one of the comments, I've added a new version of mailer to pypi that lets you specify the port in the Mailer class.

Answer 2

Django includes the class you need in core, docs here

from django.core.mail import EmailMultiAlternatives

subject, from_email, to = 'hello', '[email protected]', '[email protected]'
text_content = 'This is an important message.'
html_content = '<p>This is an <strong>important</strong> message.</p>'
msg = EmailMultiAlternatives(subject, text_content, from_email, [to])
msg.attach_alternative(html_content, "text/html")
msg.attach_file('/path/to/file.jpg')
msg.send()

In my settings I have:

#GMAIL STUFF
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_USER = '[email protected]'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'password'
EMAIL_PORT = 587