Here is a text/plain MIME type parts in official exmaple code.
I remove it from my sample code, because it's not show up in mail at Office Outlook 2010.
#!/usr/bin/env python
"""
File name: sendMail.py
Python send HTML mail using SMTP with authorization
Usage :
./sendMail.py to@gmail.com Subtitle [ FilePath | txt ]
"""
import smtplib
import sys,traceback
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from time import gmtime, strftime
#log file location
log_path = "./mail-log";
#log timestamp format
logger_tstamp = "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S"
#SMPT server
smtp_server = "smtp.gmail.com"
#gmail 465 or 578
smtp_port = 587
#mail from
user = "from@gmail.com"
pwd = "password"
# log method
class Logger:
file = 1
err = 2
class ContentType:
file = 1
txt = 2
#select log method
debug_log = Logger.err
#select content type
content_type = ContentType.txt
def debug(msg):
if debug_log == Logger.file:
with open(log_path, 'a') as log_file:
log_file.write(strftime(logger_tstamp, gmtime()) + msg)
log_file.close()
elif debug_log == Logger.err:
sys.stderr.write(strftime(logger_tstamp, gmtime()) + msg)
else:
print(strftime(logger_tstamp, gmtime()) + msg)
#check argument number
arg_count = len(sys.argv)
if arg_count !=4:
debug("[Error]: invalid argument\n")
sys.exit(1)
try:
mail_to = sys.argv[1]
subject = sys.argv[2]
if content_type == ContentType.file:
content_path = sys.argv[3]
with open(content_path, 'r') as f_content:
content = f_content.read()
f_content.close()
else:
content = sys.argv[3]
serv = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, smtp_port)
# serv.ehlo()
serv.starttls()
# serv.ehlo()
serv.login(user, pwd);
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = subject
msg['From'] = user
msg['To'] = mail_to
part1 = MIMEText(content, 'html')
msg.attach(part1)
serv.sendmail(user, mail_to, msg.as_string())
serv.quit()
debug("[Debug] subject : " + subject + "\n")
except:
debug("[Error]: send mail error\n")
debug("[Error]:\n" + traceback.format_exc())
sys.exit(2);
Reference:
email: Examples
smtplib
How to send email in Python via SMTPLIB