import smtplib from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart from email.mime.text import MIMEText from email.mime.base import MIMEBase from email import encoders mail_content = '''Hello, This is a test mail. In this mail we are sending some attachments. The mail is sent using Python SMTP library. Thank You ''' #The mail addresses and password sender_address = 'sender123@gmail.com' sender_pass = 'xxxxxxxx' receiver_address = 'receiver567@gmail.com' #Setup the MIME message = MIMEMultipart() message['From'] = sender_address message['To'] = receiver_address message['Subject'] = 'A test mail sent by Python. It has an attachment.' #The subject line #The body and the attachments for the mail message.attach(MIMEText(mail_content, 'plain')) attach_file_name = 'TP_python_prev.pdf' attach_file = open(attach_file_name, 'rb') # Open the file as binary mode payload = MIMEBase('application', 'octate-stream') payload.set_payload((attach_file).read()) encoders.encode_base64(payload) #encode the attachment #add payload header with filename payload.add_header('Content-Decomposition', 'attachment', filename=attach_file_name) message.attach(payload) #Create SMTP session for sending the mail session = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587) #use gmail with port session.starttls() #enable security session.login(sender_address, sender_pass) #login with mail_id and password text = message.as_string() session.sendmail(sender_address, receiver_address, text) session.quit() print('Mail Sent')

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