1 .. _email-examples: 2 3 :mod:`email`: Examples 4 ---------------------- 5 6 Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, 7 and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages. 8 9 First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message: 10 11 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py 12 13 14 And parsing RFC822 headers can easily be done by the parse(filename) or 15 parsestr(message_as_string) methods of the Parser() class: 16 17 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py 18 19 20 Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family 21 pictures that may be residing in a directory: 22 23 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py 24 25 26 Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email 27 message: [1]_ 28 29 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py 30 31 32 Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one 33 above, into a directory of files: 34 35 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py 36 37 Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain 38 text version: [2]_ 39 40 .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py 41 42 43 .. rubric:: Footnotes 44 45 .. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples. 46 .. [2] Contributed by Martin Matejek. 47
