Send HTML webpage as an email along with an attachment file using python SMTP

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Let us see how to send a webpage as an email along with an attachment file using python SMTP. Previously, I have covered how to send plain text email using python SMTP. 

Import statement

import smtplib

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

import os

  • The smtplib is responsible for connecting to the host and logging in. 
  • MIMEMultipart module helps in forming the basic email elements like from address, to addresses, message, body, etc.
  • MIMEApplication helps to add attachment files.
  • MIMEText helps in adding html or plain email as body.

Read local html file and add as email body

with open(‘shoefeature.html’) as file:

    htmlBody = file.read()

message.attach(MIMEText(htmlBody,’html’))

Adding attachment file to email

attachmentFileName = ‘readme.txt’

with open(attachmentFileName) as file:

    attachmentFile = file.read()

attachment = MIMEApplication(attachmentFile)

attachment.add_header(‘Content-Disposition’, ‘attachment; filename={}’.format(attachmentFileName))

message.attach(attachment)

Overall code

This code is also available on my github repository.

import smtplib

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart

from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication

from email.mime.text import MIMEText

import os

from_address = os.environ[‘EMAIL’]

to_address = [“TO_EMAIL_ADDRESS”] #REPLACE with the to addresses you wish to send

message = MIMEMultipart()

message[‘From’] = from_address

message[‘To’] = ” ,”.join(to_address)

message[‘subject’] = ‘Hello from SMTP’

with open(‘shoefeature.html’) as file:

    htmlBody = file.read()

message.attach(MIMEText(htmlBody,’html’))

# adding attachment to email

attachmentFileName = ‘readme.txt’

with open(attachmentFileName) as file:

    attachmentFile = file.read()

attachment = MIMEApplication(attachmentFile)

attachment.add_header(‘Content-Disposition’, ‘attachment; filename={}’.format(attachmentFileName))

message.attach(attachment)

email = os.environ[‘EMAIL’]

password = os.environ[‘PASSWORD’]

mail = smtplib.SMTP(‘smtp.gmail.com’,587)

mail.ehlo()

mail.starttls()

mail.login(email,password)

text = message.as_string()

mail.sendmail(from_address,to_address,text)

mail.quit()

Happy Coding!!

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