duckworthd/chainmail

Email in Python made easy!

chainmail

chainmail is a Python library for constructing and sending email.

Installation

$ pip install chainmail

Usage

import chainmail

message = (
  chainmail.Message()
  .sender("source@example.com")
  .recipient("destination@example.com")
  .subject(u"実例")                 # look Ma, unicode "just works"!
  .body(u"これはテストなんですよ")
  .attachment("chainmail.py")
  .attachment("test.py")
)

smtp = (
  chainmail.SMTP()
  .host("smtp.example.com")
  .port(587)
  .username("USER")
  .password("PASSWORD")
)

print message
print smtp

smtp.send(message)

Text Encoding

All text is forcibly encoded as unicode via BeautifulSoup's UnicodeDammit class. If your message is looking garbled, try encoding it unicode before attaching it.