Installation

eletter requires Python 3.8 or higher. Just use pip for Python 3 (You have pip, right?) to install eletter and its dependencies:

python3 -m pip install eletter

Examples

Constructing an e-mail with the compose() function:

import eletter

TEXT = (
    "Oh my beloved!\n"
    "\n"
    "Wilt thou dine with me on the morrow?\n"
    "\n"
    "We're having hot pockets.\n"
    "\n"
    "Love, Me\n"
)

HTML = (
    "<p>Oh my beloved!</p>\n"
    "<p>Wilt thou dine with me on the morrow?</p>\n"
    "<p>We're having <strong>hot pockets</strong>.</p>\n"
    "<p><em>Love</em>, Me</p>\n"
)

with open("hot-pocket.png", "rb") as fp:
    picture = eletter.BytesAttachment(
        content=fp.read(),
        filename="enticement.png",
        content_type="image/png",
    )

msg = eletter.compose(
    subject="Meet Me",
    from_="me@here.qq",
    to=[eletter.Address("My Dear", "my.beloved@love.love")],
    text=TEXT,
    html=HTML,
    attachments=[picture],
)

msg can then be sent like any other EmailMessage, say, by using outgoing.

For more complex e-mails, a set of classes is provided. Here is the equivalent of the HTML-with-image e-mail with alternative plain text version from the email examples page in the Python docs:

from email.utils import make_msgid
import eletter

text = eletter.TextBody(
    "Salut!\n"
    "\n"
    "Cela ressemble à un excellent recipie[1] déjeuner.\n"
    "\n"
    "[1] http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Roasted-Asparagus-Epicurious-203718\n"
    "\n"
    "--Pepé\n"
)

asparagus_cid = make_msgid()

html = eletter.HTMLBody(
    "<html>\n"
    "  <head></head>\n"
    "  <body>\n"
    "    <p>Salut!</p>\n"
    "    <p>Cela ressemble à un excellent\n"
    '        <a href="http://www.yummly.com/recipe/Roasted-Asparagus-'
    'Epicurious-203718">\n'
    "            recipie\n"
    "        </a> déjeuner.\n"
    "    </p>\n"
    f'    <img src="cid:{asparagus_cid[1:-1]}" />\n'
    "  </body>\n"
    "</html>\n"
)

image = eletter.BytesAttachment.from_file(
    "roasted-asparagus.jpg",
    inline=True,
    content_id=asparagus_cid,
)

msg = (text | (html ^ image)).compose(
    subject="Ayons asperges pour le déjeuner",
    from_=eletter.Address("Pepé Le Pew", "pepe@example.com"),
    to=[
        eletter.Address("Penelope Pussycat", "penelope@example.com"),
        eletter.Address("Fabrette Pussycat", "fabrette@example.com"),
    ],
)