simplemail

Overview

simplemail is an easy way to send emails in Python. It will use a sendmail binary which is almost always available and ready to go.

Dependencies

Python 2.6 or 2.7

Sample usecase

The code has docstrings which explains how to use the library. But here's the sample usecase I just made up for showing you the benefits and simplicity of using it.

Let's assume that you have a general announcement which you would like to send out to your mailing list. The message itself is common for every member of your list, but you want to greet every person by his or her name in the beginning of your message.

So you have a list of your customer in a dictionary.

from simplemail import Simplemail

mailinglist = {"Bob": "bob@domain.tld",
               "Alice": "alice@domain.tld"}

Let's fire the default settings for all our emails.

message = Simplemail(sender="Maillist Owner <postmaster@domain.tld>",
                     subject="Monthly announcement")

Next you are going to write a default message body for everyone.

body = "We are proudly to present our new feature."

Let's compose a personal greeting for every member of your list and fire an email.

for person in mailinglist.keys():
    gr = "Hello, %s\n\n%s" % (person, body)
    message.send(recipient=mailinglist[person], body=gr)

Now you have a personal greeting for all of your subscribers.

HTML emails

You can add an optional HTML-view of your email with the html variable. E.g.:

from simplemail import Simplemail

body = "Hi!"
html = "<strong>Hi!</strong>"

message = Simplemail(sender="You <your@mail>", recipient=["your@mail"], subject="html test")
message.send(body=body, html=html)

Logging handler

There is a special logging handler which utilizes the simplemail library. Here's a code sample:

import logging
from simplemail import Simplemail
from simplemail.handlers import SimplemailLogger

# Initializing Simplemail
mail = Simplemail(sender="Application Error <errors@domain.tld>",
                  recipient=["you@domain.tld"])

# Initializing logger
logger = logging.getLogger()
logger.setLevel(logging.DEBUG)
logger.propagate = False
# Sending SimplemailLogger the Simplemail object, application name
# and the treshold
sl = SimplemailLogger(mail, __name__, logging.WARNING)
logger.addHandler(sl)

# Writing to the log
logger.warn("test")

The handler's constructor expects three arguments. One is mandatory: mailobject is the Simplemail object itself, which needs to be initialized before. Two others are optional: app contains your application name, which will be mentioned in the mail subject; and level which is the treshold at which the handler will be triggered.

Downloads

This library is available at PyPi.