This is an update to a script I put together several years ago which needed some minor changes to prevent the email from being sent if there were no attachments. Also, there was a bug that would send the email whether attachments were present or not due to the presence of the archive folder in the searched folder. This code should correct that. I changed the script as little as possible, so some may criticize the duplicate if statement. If I have time, I will correct this in the near future. Even so, it should work fine as written.
# 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 #######################################
servername='ServerName'
path='//' + servername + '/PathUnderServerName' # location of files
archiveFolderName = 'archive' # name of folder under path where files will be archived
host = 'smtp.example.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 = "[email protected]"
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 = 'Your message regarding server named ' + servername
htmlmsgtext = """<h2>Files present on server named """ + servername + """ are attached and have been archived.</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 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) > 1: # 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.add_header('From', fromaddr)
msg.add_header('To', toaddr)
msg.add_header('Subject', msgsubject)
msg.add_header('Reply-To', replyto)
# 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.
if 'attachments' in globals() and len(attachments) > 1: # are there attachments?
server.sendmail(msg['From'], [msg['To']], msg.as_string())
print 'Email sent.'
#print len(attachments)-1
else:
print 'No attachments found.'
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
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
try:
if 'attachments' in globals() and len(attachments) > 1: # 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."
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