SMTPEmail 0.3

Send MIME messages via SMTP server and retrieve messages via POP3 and IMAP

A simple script to send MIME message via SMTP server and retrieve messages via POP3

Installation pip install SMTPEmail

Latest test version pip install -i https://test.pypi.org/simple/ SMTPEmail

Usage

Sending email via SMTP

>>>from SMTPEmail import SMTP
>>>client = SMTP(
	SMTP_server = <domain> or <IP_address>,
	SMTP_account = <account_name>,
	password = <SMTP_password>
	)
>>>client.create_mime(
	recipient_email_addr='[e-mail]',
	sender_email_addr='[e-mail]',
	subject='subject',
	sender_display_name='John Doe',
	recipient_display_name='Jane Doe',
	content_html='<p>hello world</p>',
	content_text='hello world'
)

>>>print(client) #print the message

Subject: subject
From: John Doe <[e-mail]>
To: Jane Doe <[e-mail]>
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 17:52:01 +0800
Message-Id: [e-mail]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
 boundary="===============0340024224523524971=="

--===============0340024224523524971==
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

hello world

--===============0340024224523524971==
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
MIME-Version: 1.0

<p>hello world</p>

--===============0340024224523524971==--

>>>client.send_msg()

Retrieve email via POP3

messages will be returned in byte object

>>>from SMTPEmail import POP3
>>>client = POP3(
	POP3_server = <domain> or <IP_address>,
	POP3_account = <account_name>,
	POP3_password = <POP3_password>
)
>>>msgs = client.retrieve_msg()

>>>for msg in msgs:
		print(msg)
...

>>>print(client.mailbox_size())
{'message count': 804, 'mailbox size': 18096539}

Retrieve email via IMAP

>>>from SMTPEmail import IMAP
>>>client = IMAP(
	IMAP_server = <domain> or <IP_address>,
	IMAP_account = <account_name>,
	IMAP_password = <IMAP_password>
)
#you can select which mailbox to access and which email to retrieve by passing parameters 'mailbox_name' and 'msg_id'
>>>for msg in client.retrieve_msg(mailbox_name='inbox', msg_id='1,3,5-8,11'):
	   print(msg)
#'mailbox_name' and 'msg_id' are optional, the user will be promted to input the two parameters if either is missing
>>>msgs = client.retrieve_msg()
0. "INBOX"
1. "Templates"
...
Please select a mailbox:1
message id: 1 2 3 4 5 6 ...
Please select mail ID to retrieve email(e.g. 1-5,6,7): 1,3-6