Sometimes, we want to send email attachments with Python.
In this article, we’ll look at how to send email attachments with Python.
How to send email attachments with Python?
To send email attachments with Python, we can use the smtplib library.
For instance, we write
import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import Encoders
SUBJECT = "Email Data"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['Subject'] = SUBJECT
msg['From'] = self.EMAIL_FROM
msg['To'] = ', '.join(self.EMAIL_TO)
part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
part.set_payload(open("text.txt", "rb").read())
Encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="text.txt"')
msg.attach(part)
server = smtplib.SMTP(self.EMAIL_SERVER)
server.sendmail(self.EMAIL_FROM, self.EMAIL_TO, msg.as_string())
to create the attachment with the MIMEBase class.
And then we call set_payload with the file we want to attach.
Next, we encode the attachment to a base64 string with Encoders.encode_base64.
And then we add the Content-Disposition header with add_header.
And then we call msg.attach with part to attach the attachment to the message.
Then we call sendmail to send the email with the attachment.
Conclusion
To send email attachments with Python, we can use the smtplib library.
