I followed the instruction which is written in Chinese to learn how to send emails by Python, here some tips from my practice:
Name of the attachment is shown as ‘ATT00002’
The name of the attachment in the receiver mailbox is shown in the format ‘ATT0000X‘ with the code:
att1["Content-Disposition"] = 'attachment; filename="runoob.txt"'
Issue The issue can be fixed by using .addheader() function:
att1.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename="1.cpp")
Here is my code:
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| import smtplib | |
| from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart | |
| from email.mime.text import MIMEText | |
| from email.mime.image import MIMEImage | |
| from email.header import Header | |
| from email.utils import formataddr | |
| sender = "mySendEmail1" | |
| receiver = "myRecEmail1" | |
| pwd = 'mypwd' | |
| ret = True | |
| mail_msg = """ | |
| <p>Python 邮件发送测试...</p> | |
| <p><a href="http://www.runoob.com">这是一个链接</a></p> | |
| <p><img src="cid:image1"></p> | |
| """ | |
| msg = MIMEMultipart() | |
| msg['From'] = formataddr(['kz', sender]) | |
| msg['To'] = formataddr(['Dear Customer', receiver]) | |
| msg['Subject'] = Header('Test Email', 'utf-8') | |
| msg.attach(MIMEText(mail_msg, 'html', 'utf-8')) | |
| fp = open('test.png', 'rb') | |
| msgImage = MIMEImage(fp.read()) | |
| fp.close() | |
| msgImage.add_header('Content-ID', '<image1>') | |
| msg.attach(msgImage) | |
| att1 = MIMEText(open('1.cpp', 'rb').read(), 'base64', 'utf-8') | |
| att1['Context-Type'] = 'application/octet-stream' | |
| att1.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename="1.cpp") | |
| msg.attach(att1) | |
| server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp-mail.outlook.com', 587) | |
| server.starttls() | |
| try: | |
| server.login(sender, pwd) | |
| server.sendmail(sender, [receiver ,], msg.as_string()) | |
| server.quit() | |
| except Exception: | |
| print(Exception) | |
| ret = False | |
| if ret: | |
| print('Email has been sent successfully') | |
| else: | |
| print('It failed to send the email') |
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