The script for testing mailing email

test_mail.py

import os
import smtplib
import mimetypes

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email import Encoders

msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')

msg['Subject'] = "Hello from Mandrill, Python style!"
msg['From']    = "John Doe <[email protected]>" # Your from name and email address
msg['To']      = "[email protected]"

text = "Mandrill speaks plaintext"
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')

html = "<em>Mandrill speaks <strong>HTML</strong></em>"
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')

msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)

try:
    attach_file = os.sys.argv[1]
    main_type, sub_type = mimetypes.guess_type(attach_file)[0].split('/')
    part = MIMEBase(main_type, sub_type)
    part.set_payload(open(attach_file).read())
    Encoders.encode_base64(part)
    part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.split(attach_file)[1])
    msg.attach(part)
except IndexError:
    pass

s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost', 1025)    
#s.login('login', 'password')
s.sendmail(msg['From'], msg['To'], msg.as_string())
# for test use smtpd
# python -m smtpd -n -c DebuggingServer localhost:1025

s.quit()