Simplyify sending HTML emails
- Free software: MIT license
- Documentation: https://email-to.readthedocs.io.
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The built in Python modules for sending email are powerful, but require a lot of boilerplate to write an HTML formatted email.
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import smtplib
message = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
message['Subject'] = 'Test'
message['From'] = '[email protected]'
message['To'] = '[email protected]'
message.attach(MIMEText('# A Heading\nSomething else in the body', 'plain')
message.attach(MIMEText('<h1 style="color: blue">A Heading</a><p>Something else in the body</p>', 'html')
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login('[email protected]', 'password')
server.sendmail('[email protected]', '[email protected]', message.as_string())
server.quit()With email_to sending a simple email becomes much more succint.
import email_to
server = email_to.EmailServer('smtp.gmail.com', 587, '[email protected]', 'password')
server.quick_email('[email protected]', 'Test',
['# A Heading', 'Something else in the body'],
style='h1 {color: blue}')email_to also supports building a message up, line by line. This is
especially useful for monitoring scripts where there may be several different
conditions of interest.
import email_to
server = email_to.EmailServer('smtp.gmail.com', 587, '[email protected]', 'password')
message = server.message()
message.add('# Oh boy, something went wrong!')
message.add('- The server had a hiccup')
message.add('- The power went out')
message.add('- Blame it on a rogue backhoe')
message.style = 'h1 { color: red}'
message.send('[email protected]', 'Things did not occur as expected')Additionally if the server details are not known at the beginning of the message, that can be handled easily too.
import email_to
message = email_to.Message('# Every thing is ok')
message.add('Everything has been running fine for days.')
message.add('Probably time to build something new and break everything')
message.style = 'h1 { color: green }'
server = email_to.EmailServer('smtp.gmail.com', 587, '[email protected]', 'password')
server.send_message(message, '[email protected]', 'Things are awesome')This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.