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:mod:`email`: Examples

Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages.

First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message:

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py

And parsing RFC822 headers can easily be done by the parse(filename) or parsestr(message_as_string) methods of the Parser() class:

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py

Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family pictures that may be residing in a directory:

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py

Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email message: [1]

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py

Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one above, into a directory of files:

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py

Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain text version: [2]

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py

Examples using the Provisional API

Here is a reworking of the last example using the provisional API. To make things a bit more interesting, we include a related image in the html part, and we save a copy of what we are going to send to disk, as well as sending it.

This example also shows how easy it is to include non-ASCII, and simplifies the sending of the message using the :meth:`.send_message` method of the :mod:`smtplib` module.

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative-new-api.py

If we were instead sent the message from the last example, here is one way we could process it:

.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-read-alternative-new-api.py

Up to the prompt, the output from the above is:

To: Penelope Pussycat <penelope@example.com>, Fabrette Pussycat <fabrette@example.com>
From: Pepé Le Pew <pepe@example.com>
Subject: Ayons asperges pour le déjeuner

Salut!

Cela ressemble à un excellent recipie[1] déjeuner.

Footnotes

[1]Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples.
[2]Contributed by Martin Matejek.