email-examples.rst

: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

Footnotes

[1]	Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples.

[2]	Contributed by Martin Matejek.