Command line python program that sends an email with an attachment from your account to someone else.

mail.py

#!/usr/bin/python
# -*-coding:utf-8-*-
#
#  mail.py
#  
#  Copyright 2012 Dustin Dorroh <[email protected]>
#  

#  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
#  (at your option) any later version.
#  
#  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
#  GNU General Public License for more details.
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import smtplib
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email import Encoders
import os
import sys
import getpass
import readline


def save_message(messagefile):
    readline.write_history_file(messagefile)

def mail(username,password,to, subject, text, attach):
    msg = MIMEMultipart()

    msg['From'] = username
    msg['To'] = to
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach(MIMEText(text))

    part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
    part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
    Encoders.encode_base64(part)
    part.add_header('Content-Disposition',
                    'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(attach))
    msg.attach(part)

    mailServer = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.starttls()
    mailServer.ehlo()
    mailServer.login(username, password)
    mailServer.sendmail(username, to, msg.as_string())
    mailServer.close()

def main():
    if not sys.argv[1:]:
        print "Usage: %s [file path]" % sys.argv[0]
        return
    print sys.argv[1:]


    username = raw_input("Email: ")
    password = getpass.getpass(prompt='Password for '+ username + ': ')
    mailto = raw_input("To: ")
    subject = raw_input("Subject: ")
    messagefile = os.path.join(os.path.expanduser("~"), mailto)
    print "Message: send EOF when done (crtl-D)."
    while True:
        try:
            message = raw_input('> ')
        except EOFError:
            print "Sending Email"
            break;

    save_message(messagefile)
    fd = open(messagefile,"r")
    mail(username,password,mailto,subject,fd.read(),sys.argv[1])

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()