SMTPlib Emailing Attachments

[Bill]

Thanks to help of Rudy Shockaert I was able to solve my problem and I
also added the capability to add the email body if you are curious and
don't know how. I also commented the code as well. Here is the code
result:

import smtplib
import mimetypes
from email.Encoders import encode_base64
from email.MIMEAudio import MIMEAudio
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
#______________________________________________________________________________________________________
#Requirements:At least Python 2.2.2
#getAttachment takes the directory path and the filename for ex:
'c:\\MyFolder\\test.txt'
#You must put double back slashes in your path. 
#getAttachment returns email version of the type of file it takes in,
#For example if it is a text file, it will encode it as a text file, a
gif, it will encode it as a gif
#_______________________________________________________________________________________________________
def getAttachment(path, filename):
     ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)  #mimetypes guesses
the type of file and stores it in ctype
     if ctype is None or encoding is not None:     # example: ctype
can equal "application/pdf"
         ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
     maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)    #We do a split on "/"
to store "application" in maintype and "pdf" in subtype
     fp = open(path, 'rb')           #open the file
     if maintype == 'text':
         attach = MIMEText(fp.read(),_subtype=subtype) #check for
maintype value and encode and return according to
     elif maintype == 'message':                       #the type of
file.
         attach = email.message_from_file(fp)
     elif maintype == 'image':
         attach = MIMEImage(fp.read(),_subtype=subtype)
     elif maintype == 'audio':
         attach = MIMEAudio(fp.read(),_subtype=subtype)
     else:
         print maintype, subtype  #if it does not equal any of the
above we print to screen and encode and return
         attach = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype) #the encoded value
         attach.set_payload(fp.read())
         encode_base64(attach)
     fp.close
     attach.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment',
filename=filename)
     return attach

#_______________________________________________________________________________________________
#Here we set up our email
>From = 'myname at hotmail.com'
To = 'yourname at hotmail.com'
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = From
msg['To'] = To
msg['Subject'] = 'here is your attachment'
body = MIMEText('This is the body of the email!') #Here is the body
path = 'C:\\YourPath\\YourFile.txt'
filename = 'gfe.pdf'
attach = getAttachment(path, filename) #We call our getAttachment()
function here
msg.attach(attach)  #We create our message both attachment and the
body
msg.attach(body)

server = smtplib.SMTP('mySMTPServerName.com')
server.sendmail(From, To, msg.as_string()) #Send away
server.quit()


bblancett at hotmail.com (Bill) wrote in message news:<4fd6e92.0309170849.287e86b6 at posting.google.com>...
> I am trying to have the capability to email attachments. Specifically
> I want to be able to email a specific attachment that I name that may
> be a PDF document, text doc, etc. I already have a working piece of
> code that emails jpg attachments but does not work with any other
> types of attachments. Could someone tell me how to modify this code to
> send other types of attachments like the one's stated above(especially
> PDF's)? Also how do I determine the name of the attachment? Right now
> it defaults to Attach0. Here is the current code I have below:
> _________________________________________________
> import sys, smtplib, MimeWriter, base64, StringIO
> 
> message = StringIO.StringIO()
> writer = MimeWriter.MimeWriter(message)
> writer.addheader('Subject', 'The Text test')
> writer.startmultipartbody('mixed')
> 
> # start off with a text/plain part
> part = writer.nextpart()
> body = part.startbody('text/plain')
> body.write('This is a picture of chess, enjoy :)')
> 
> # now add an image part
> part = writer.nextpart()
> part.addheader('Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'base64')
> body = part.startbody('image/jpeg')
> #body = part.startbody('text/plain')
> base64.encode(open('c:\email\chess01.jpg', 'rb'), body)
> 
> # finish off
> writer.lastpart()
> 
> # send the mail
> smtp = smtplib.SMTP('fc.hbu.edu')
> smtp.sendmail('bblancett at hbu.edu', 'bblancett at hbu.edu',
> message.getvalue())
> smtp.quit()
> __________________________________________________________________________