Quick and Dirty html email sender for testing

html_mailer.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import smtplib, getpass, os, sys
import shelve

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

def build_information():
    d = shelve.open('/tmp/mailer.data')

    if d.get('gmail_user'):
        gmail_user = raw_input('What is your gmail address?  (Press enter to use %s)' % d.get('gmail_user'))
        if len(gmail_user) == 0:
            gmail_user = d.get('gmail_user')
    else:
        gmail_user = raw_input('What is your gmail address? ')
    gmail_password = getpass.getpass('What is your gmail password? ')
    recipient = raw_input('Where would you like this email to go? (Press enter to use %s)' % gmail_user)

    d['gmail_user'] = gmail_user

    if len(recipient) == 0:
        recipient = gmail_user
        
    return recipient, gmail_user, gmail_password

def get_file_contents(path):
    file = open(os.path.join(os.getcwd(), path), 'r')
    contents = file.read()
    file.close()
    return contents

def send_email(content):
    recipient, gmail_user, gmail_password = build_information()
    
    msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
    msg['Subject'] = "HTML Test Email"
    msg['From'] = gmail_user
    msg['To'] = recipient
    
    msg.attach(MIMEText(content, 'html'))
    server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com',587) #port 465 or 587
    server.ehlo()
    server.starttls()
    server.ehlo()
    server.login(gmail_user,gmail_password)
    server.sendmail(gmail_user,recipient, msg.as_string())
    server.close()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
        print "Please specify an html file to send."
        exit()   
    send_email(get_file_contents(sys.argv[1]))