send() method

The signature of the method to send an email is the following:

send(subject, text, text_html=None, sender=None,
     recipients=[None], cc=[], bcc=[], attachments={},
     encoding=ENCODING, smtp_host=SMTP_HOST, smtp_port=SMTP_PORT,
     username=None, password=None)

The parameters are the following:

• subject: this is the subject of the email, as a string.

• text: this is the text of the email as a string.

• text_html: text as HTML.

• sender: email address of the sender of the email.

• recipients: the list of recipients, or the recipient as a string if there is a single one (this is NOT a coma separated list).

• cc: the list of carbon copies.

• bcc: the list of blind carbon copies.

• attachments: a dictionnary that gives the file name for a given attachment name.

• encoding: the encoding of the message.

• smtp_host: the hostname of the email server.

• smtp_port: the port of the email server (defaults to 25).

• username: the username for SMTP basic authentication

• password: the password for SMTP basic authentication

If not set, SMTP host, username and password are extracted from environment variables MAIL_SMTP, MAIL_USERNAME and MAIL_PASSWORD.

Command line

You can also invoke this script on command line to send emails. To get help about command line parameters, type mail1 -h, which will display following help page:

mail1 [-h] -f from -r recipient -s subject -a file
           -m smtphost -e encoding message
Send an email with following:
-h            Print this help page
-f from       The mail sender
-r recipient  The mail recipient (repeat for more than one recipient)
-s subject    The mail subject
-a file       A file to attach
-e encoding   The encoding to use
-m smtphost   The SMTP server host
-u username   The SMTP username
-p password   The SMTP password
message       The message

If not passed on command line, SMTP host, username and password are extracted from environment variables MAIL_SMTP, MAIL_USERNAME and MAIL_PASSWORD.

Enjoy!