sendmail.py

#!/usr/bin/python
import sys
import os
import smtplib
import subprocess
from smtplib import SMTPException


sender = '[email protected]'
receivers = '[email protected]'
fullpath = sys.argv[1]
recording = sys.argv[2]
string_fullpath = str(fullpath)
string_recording = str(recording)


message = """From: TVHeadend <[email protected]>
To: Pushover <[email protected]>
Subject: TVHeadend New Recording
"""

try:
   smtpObj = smtplib.SMTP('127.0.0.1')
   smtpObj.sendmail(sender, receivers, message + recording)
   print "Successfully sent email"
except SMTPException:
   print "Error: unable to send email"

print "Converting started for recording: " + string_recording + " in path: " + string_fullpath
# arguments need to be converted to strings
subprocess.call(['/config/convert-mkv2mp4.sh %s %s' % (string_fullpath, string_recording)], shell = True)
# better use call instead of popen -better use subprocess instead of OS.system
#os.system('bash /config/convert-mkv2mp4.sh {} {}' .format(str(fullpath), str(recording))