Python script to send file by e-mail (uses smtplib)

mailsend (text/plain), 855 bytes, created by Nicolás Echániz on 2004-03-14 16:37:28 UTC

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys, smtplib

def mailsend(messsage_file, sender, recipient, host, subject):
	"""sends a local file by e-mail from the sender to the recipient
using the specified (SMTP)host"""
	
	try:
		file = open(message_file, "r")
	except:
		print "Could't read from message file", message_file
		sys.exit()

	message = file.read()
	file.close()
	mail = """\
From: %(sender)s
Subject: %(subject)s

%(message)s
""" % locals()

	server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
	server.set_debuglevel(0)
	server.sendmail(sender, recipient, mail)
	server.quit()

if __name__=="__main__":
	try:
		message_file, sender = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
		recipient, host, subject = sys.argv[3], sys.argv[4], sys.argv[5]
		
	except:
		print "Usage:\n mailsend filename sender recipient host subject"
		sys.exit()

	mailsend(message_file, sender, recipient, host, subject)