outbox

Outbox.py: SMTP Client for Humans

This is simplest SMTP client you'll ever see. It's 100% synchronous...

Usage

Give your app an outbox easily::

from outbox import Outbox, Email, Attachment

# io.StringIO for Python 3 folks
from StringIO import StringIO

attachments = [
    Attachment('kittens.jpg', fileobj=open('ducks.jpg', 'rb')),
    Attachment('my-transient-file.bin', fileobj=StringIO('some raw data')),
]

outbox = Outbox(username='username', password='password',
        server='server', port=1234, mode='SSL')

outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', body='some nice sentiment',
        recipients=['[e-mail]']), attachments=attachments)

# html email with attachments
outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', html_body='<b>SOME REALLY NICE SENTIMENT</b>',
        recipients=['[e-mail]']), attachments=attachments)

This method will log in to the server each time send() is called.

Alternatively, you can use Outbox as a context manager::

with Outbox(username='username', password='password',
        server='server', port=1234, mode='SSL') as outbox:

    outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', body='some nice sentiment',
            recipients=['[e-mail]']), attachments=attachments)

    # html email with attachments
    outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', html_body='<b>SOME REALLY NICE SENTIMENT</b>',
            recipients=['[e-mail]']), attachments=attachments)

Using Outbox as a context manager has the added benefit of performing a single login to send all emails.

Installation

Installing Outbox.py is simple::

$ pip install outbox

Change History

0.1.8 (24th June 2014) - Thanks to Hideaki Takahashi for teh following contributions! - Added RFC2047 style encoding support. - Much improved support for multipart messages. 0.1.7 (24th June 2014) - Thanks to Hideaki Takahashi for submitting a MANIFEST, which allows outbox to be installed via pip again (broken in 0.1.6) 0.1.6 (24th June 2014) - Added AnonymousOutbox, a class for connecting to servers that don't perform authentication. - Fleshed out documentation for outbox.Email. - Fixed a bug when using Python 3 (calling iteritems on a dict). - Moved the project to Github. 0.1.5 (3rd March 2013) - Thanks to Peter Naudus for the following contributions! - Added debug argument to Outbox class, to switch smtplib's debugging. - Added fields argument to Email class, to allow additional email fields to be set. - Connection and disconnection are now exposed. - Internal cleanup of some of the connection code. 0.1.4 (29th October 2012) - Handle passing a single recipient as a string, instead of forcing the recipient to be a list. - Handle utf8 email properly. Thanks, Zhang Mingyuan! I doubt I've covered every use case, so the charset to use can be passed in when constructing an Email. - Added a sender_address method to the Outbox class, for when the username used for authentication isn't good enough. 0.1.3 (3rd July 2012) - Made a few lines of code a bit easier to follow. No functional changes. - Updated the license to actually hold copyright in my name, instead of Kenneth Reitz. Does this mean he owned copyright on the library up until now? Can I even change the license? I'm unsure. 0.1.2 (2nd June 2012) - Made Outbox a context manager, so it can be used with the with statement. As noted in the example, this has the added benefit of performing a single login to send all emails, you should get better performance using a with statement. - Removed raw and filepath arguments to Attachment. They were both begging to point to a file-like object, so that's what you have now - an argument called fileobj - Fixed annoying encoding error when trying to send binary attachments. - The Email object does not have a type argument anymore. Instead, there is body and html_body, so you can send an email with both html and plain-text bodies.

0.1.1 (27th May 2012) - Initial release