Sending an Email with Attachments using Python – Archiving Functionality Added

# Adapted from https://gist.github.com/4009671 and other sources by David Young
# added directory searching functionality to add all files in folder
# disabled username / password logon for use in our Exchange environment
######### Setup your stuff here #######################################

path='<<file path>>' # location of files
archiveFolderName = 'archive' # name of folder under path where files will be archived
host = 'smtp.whatever.com' # specify port, if required, using a colon and port number following the hostname

fromaddr = '[email protected]' # must be a vaild 'from' address in your environment
toaddr  = ['user'[email protected]','[email protected]','[email protected]'] # list of email addresses
replyto = fromaddr # unless you want a different reply-to

# username = 'username' # not used in our Exchange environment
# password = 'password' # not used in our Exchange environment

msgsubject = 'This is the email subject'

htmlmsgtext = "<h2>Email body here</h2>" # text with appropriate HTML tags

######### In normal use nothing changes below this line ###############

import smtplib, os, sys, shutil
from datetime import date
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Utils import COMMASPACE
from email import Encoders
from HTMLParser import HTMLParser

archivePath = os.path.join(path, archiveFolderName) # full path where files will be archived

if not os.path.exists(archivePath): # create archive folder if it doesn't exist
os.makedirs(archivePath)
print 'Archive folder created at ' + archivePath + '.'

# A snippet - class to strip HTML tags for the text version of the email

class MLStripper(HTMLParser):
def __init__(self):
self.reset()
self.fed = []
def handle_data(self, d):
self.fed.append(d)
def get_data(self):
return ''.join(self.fed)

def strip_tags(html):
s = MLStripper()
s.feed(html)
return s.get_data()

########################################################################

try:
# Make text version from HTML - First convert tags that produce a line break to carriage returns
msgtext = htmlmsgtext.replace('</br>',"r").replace('<br />',"r").replace('</p>',"r")
# Then strip all the other tags out
msgtext = strip_tags(msgtext)

# necessary mimey stuff
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg.preamble = 'This is a multi-part message in MIME format.n'
msg.epilogue = ''

body = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
body.attach(MIMEText(msgtext))
body.attach(MIMEText(htmlmsgtext, 'html'))
msg.attach(body)
attachments = os.listdir(path)

if 'attachments' in globals() and len('attachments') > 0: # are there attachments?
for filename in attachments:
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, filename)):
f = os.path.join(path, filename)
part = MIMEBase('application', "octet-stream")
part.set_payload( open(f,"rb").read() )
Encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(f))
msg.attach(part)

msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(toaddr)
msg['Subject'] = msgsubject
msg['Reply-To'] = replyto

print 'To addresses follow:'
print toaddr

# The actual email sendy bits
server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
server.set_debuglevel(False) # set to True for verbose output

# Comment this block and uncomment the below try/except block if TLS or user/pass is required.
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, msg.as_string())
print 'Email sent.'
server.quit() # bye bye

# try:
# # If TLS is used
# server.starttls()
# server.login(username,password)
# server.sendmail(msg['From'], [msg['To']], msg.as_string())
# print 'Email sent.'
# server.quit() # bye bye
# except:
# # if tls is set for non-tls servers you would have raised an exception, so....
# server.login(username,password)
# server.sendmail(msg['From'], [msg['To']], msg.as_string())
# print 'Email sent.'
# server.quit() # bye bye

try:
if 'attachments' in globals() and len('attachments') > 0: # are there attachments?
for filename in attachments:
if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, filename)):
f1 = os.path.join(path, filename)
x = filename.find('.')
filename2 = filename[:x] + '_' + str(date.today()) + filename[x:]
f2 = os.path.join(path, filename2)
os.rename(f1, f2)
print "File " + filename + " renamed to " + filename2 + "."
shutil.move(f2, archivePath)
print "File " + filename2 + " moved to " + archivePath + "."

except:
print "Files not successfully renamed and/or archived."

except:
print "Email NOT sent to %s successfully. ERR: %s %s %s " % (str(toaddr), str(sys.exc_info()[0]), str(sys.exc_info()[1]), str(sys.exc_info()[2]) )
#just in case