mailer 0.7

A module to send email simply in Python

Here are some of the features:

• Single class to send plain text, HTML email, and attachments
• Auto detects attachment types
• Support for internationalized headers

Changes in version 0.3

The API for Mailer.To is changed. Use a string to specify a single recipient, and an iterable to specify more than one.

Changes in version 0.4

You can now specify the port in Mailer

from mailer import Mailer
sender = Mailer('smtp.example.com', port=20)

Changes in version 0.5

• Message.attach takes an optional cid argument.
• You can now send HTML emails with attachments

Thanks to Douglas Mayle for his patch for this.

Changes in version 0.6

• Can now select port
• Supports gmail

Changes in version 0.7

• You can now specify MIME type:

  msg.attach("picture.png", mimetype="image/png")
  

Examples

Sending an HTML email:

from mailer import Mailer
from mailer import Message

message = Message(From="[e-mail]",
                  To="[e-mail]",
                  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)

Sending an attachment:

from mailer import Mailer
from mailer import Message

message = Message(From="[e-mail]",
                  To=["[e-mail]", "[e-mail]"],
                  Subject="Cute Cat")
message.Body = """Kittens with dynamite"""
message.attach("kitty.jpg")

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

Tested with Python 2.4, 2.5, and 2.6