update sending emails tutorial

Author: x4nth055

general/email-sender/1810.04805.pdf

@@ -1,7 +1,19 @@
 import smtplib
 from email.mime.text import MIMEText
 from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
-from email.mime.audio import MIME
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
+
+def send_mail(email, password, FROM, TO, msg):
+    # initialize the SMTP server
+    server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
+    # connect to the SMTP server as TLS mode (secure) and send EHLO
+    server.starttls()
+    # login to the account using the credentials
+    server.login(email, password)
+    # send the email
+    server.sendmail(FROM, TO, msg.as_string())
+    # terminate the SMTP session
+    server.quit()
 
 # your credentials
 email = "[email protected]"
@@ -15,24 +27,29 @@
 subject = "Just a subject"
 
 # initialize the message we wanna send
-msg = MIMEMultipart()
+msg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
 # set the sender's email
 msg["From"] = FROM
 # set the receiver's email
 msg["To"] = TO
 # set the subject
 msg["Subject"] = subject
-# set the body of the email
-text = MIMEText("This email is sent using <b>Python</b> !", "html")
-# attach this body to the email
-msg.attach(text)
-# initialize the SMTP server
-server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
-# connect to the SMTP server as TLS mode (secure) and send EHLO
-server.starttls()
-# login to the account using the credentials
-server.login(email, password)
-# send the email
-server.sendmail(FROM, TO, msg.as_string())
-# terminate the SMTP session
-server.quit()
+# set the body of the email as HTML
+html = """
+This email is sent using <b>Python </b>!
+"""
+# uncomment below line if you want to use the HTML template
+# located in mail.html
+# html = open("mail.html").read()
+# make the text version of the HTML
+text = bs(html, "html.parser").text
+
+text_part = MIMEText(text, "plain")
+html_part = MIMEText(html, "html")
+# attach the email body to the mail message
+# attach the plain text version first
+msg.attach(text_part)
+msg.attach(html_part)
+
+# send the mail
+send_mail(email, password, FROM, TO, msg)

general/email-sender/email_sender.py

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+import smtplib
+from email import encoders
+from email.mime.text import MIMEText
+from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
+from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
+
+# list of files to send as an attachment to the email
+# feel free to add your attachments here
+files_to_send = [
+    "test.txt",
+    "1810.04805.pdf",
+]
+
+
+def send_mail(email, password, FROM, TO, msg):
+    # initialize the SMTP server
+    server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
+    # connect to the SMTP server as TLS mode (secure) and send EHLO
+    server.starttls()
+    # login to the account using the credentials
+    server.login(email, password)
+    # send the email
+    server.sendmail(FROM, TO, msg.as_string())
+    # terminate the SMTP session
+    server.quit()
+
+# your credentials
+email = "[email protected]"
+password = "password"
+
+# the sender's email
+FROM = "[email protected]"
+# the receiver's email
+TO   = "[email protected]"
+# the subject of the email (subject)
+subject = "Just a subject"
+
+# initialize the message we wanna send
+msg = MIMEMultipart("alternative")
+# set the sender's email
+msg["From"] = FROM
+# set the receiver's email
+msg["To"] = TO
+# set the subject
+msg["Subject"] = subject
+# set the body of the email as HTML
+html = open("mail.html").read()
+# make the text version of the HTML
+text = bs(html, "html.parser").text
+
+text_part = MIMEText(text, "plain")
+html_part = MIMEText(html, "html")
+# attach the email body to the mail message
+# attach the plain text version first
+msg.attach(text_part)
+msg.attach(html_part)
+
+for file in files_to_send:
+    # open the file as read in bytes
+    with open(file, "rb") as f:
+        # read the file content
+        data = f.read()
+        # create the attachement
+        attach_part = MIMEBase("application", "octet-stream")
+        attach_part.set_payload(data)
+    # encode the data to base 64
+    encoders.encode_base64(attach_part)
+    # add the Content-Disposition header
+    attach_part.add_header("Content-Disposition", f"attachment; filename= {file}")
+    msg.attach(attach_part)
+
+# send the mail
+send_mail(email, password, FROM, TO, msg)