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      1 #!/usr/bin/env python3
      2 
      3 """Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message."""
      4 
      5 import os
      6 import smtplib
      7 # For guessing MIME type based on file name extension
      8 import mimetypes
      9 
     10 from argparse import ArgumentParser
     11 
     12 from email.message import EmailMessage
     13 from email.policy import SMTP
     14 
     15 
     16 def main():
     17     parser = ArgumentParser(description="""\
     18 Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message.
     19 Unless the -o option is given, the email is sent by forwarding to your local
     20 SMTP server, which then does the normal delivery process.  Your local machine
     21 must be running an SMTP server.
     22 """)
     23     parser.add_argument('-d', '--directory',
     24                         help="""Mail the contents of the specified directory,
     25                         otherwise use the current directory.  Only the regular
     26                         files in the directory are sent, and we don't recurse to
     27                         subdirectories.""")
     28     parser.add_argument('-o', '--output',
     29                         metavar='FILE',
     30                         help="""Print the composed message to FILE instead of
     31                         sending the message to the SMTP server.""")
     32     parser.add_argument('-s', '--sender', required=True,
     33                         help='The value of the From: header (required)')
     34     parser.add_argument('-r', '--recipient', required=True,
     35                         action='append', metavar='RECIPIENT',
     36                         default=[], dest='recipients',
     37                         help='A To: header value (at least one required)')
     38     args = parser.parse_args()
     39     directory = args.directory
     40     if not directory:
     41         directory = '.'
     42     # Create the message
     43     msg = EmailMessage()
     44     msg['Subject'] = 'Contents of directory %s' % os.path.abspath(directory)
     45     msg['To'] = ', '.join(args.recipients)
     46     msg['From'] = args.sender
     47     msg.preamble = 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'
     48 
     49     for filename in os.listdir(directory):
     50         path = os.path.join(directory, filename)
     51         if not os.path.isfile(path):
     52             continue
     53         # Guess the content type based on the file's extension.  Encoding
     54         # will be ignored, although we should check for simple things like
     55         # gzip'd or compressed files.
     56         ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
     57         if ctype is None or encoding is not None:
     58             # No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so
     59             # use a generic bag-of-bits type.
     60             ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
     61         maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)
     62         with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
     63             msg.add_attachment(fp.read(),
     64                                maintype=maintype,
     65                                subtype=subtype,
     66                                filename=filename)
     67     # Now send or store the message
     68     if args.output:
     69         with open(args.output, 'wb') as fp:
     70             fp.write(msg.as_bytes(policy=SMTP))
     71     else:
     72         with smtplib.SMTP('localhost') as s:
     73             s.send_message(msg)
     74 
     75 
     76 if __name__ == '__main__':
     77     main()
     78