CODEWITHSUNDEEP
python
user2341103
user2341103

Reputation: 2433

emailing content of a text file on unix platform

I am using the following piece of code to email the content of gerrit.txt which is HTML code but its not working?it doesnt show any errors but doesnt work the way its supposed to.any inputs on how to fix this?

from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from subprocess import check_call,Popen,PIPE

def email (body,subject,to=None):
      msg = MIMEText("%s" % body)
      msg['Content-Type'] = "text/html;"
      msg["From"] = "[email protected]"
      if to!=None:
          to=to.strip()
          msg["To"] = "[email protected]"
      else:
          msg["To"] = "[email protected]"
      msg["Subject"] = '%s' % subject
      p = Popen(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-t"], stdin=PIPE)

def main ():
    Subject ="test email"
    email('gerrit.txt',Subject,'userid')

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Upvotes: 2

Views: 82

Answers (1)

drew010
drew010

Reputation: 69967

The reason nothing is being sent is because once you open the sendmail process, the message is never written to it. Also, you need to read the contents of the text file into a variable to include in the message.

Here is a simple example that builds off your code. I didn't use the MIMEText object for everything so modify it to suit your needs.

from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from subprocess import check_call,Popen,PIPE

def email (body,subject,to=None):
      msg = MIMEText("%s" % body)
      msg['Content-Type'] = "text/html;"
      msg["From"] = "[email protected]"
      if to!=None:
          to=to.strip()
          msg["To"] = to
      else:
          msg["To"] = "[email protected]"
      msg["Subject"] = '%s' % subject
      p = Popen(["/usr/sbin/sendmail", "-t", "-f" + msg["From"]], stdin=PIPE)
      (stddata, errdata) = p.communicate(input="To: " + msg["To"] + "\r\nFrom: " + msg["From"] + "\r\nSubject: " + subject + "\r\nImportance: Normal\r\n\r\n" + body)
      print stddata, errdata
      print "Done"


def main ():
    # open gerrit.txt and read the content into body
    with open('gerrit.txt', 'r') as f:
        body = f.read()

    Subject ="test email"
    email(body, Subject, "[email protected]")

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Upvotes: 1

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