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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message."""
import os
import sys
import smtplib
# For guessing MIME type based on file name extension
import mimetypes
from argparse import ArgumentParser
from email import encoders
from email.message import Message
from email.mime.audio import MIMEAudio
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
COMMASPACE = ', '
def main():
parser = ArgumentParser(description="""\
Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message.
Unless the -o option is given, the email is sent by forwarding to your local
SMTP server, which then does the normal delivery process. Your local machine
must be running an SMTP server.
""")
parser.add_argument('-d', '--directory',
help="""Mail the contents of the specified directory,
otherwise use the current directory. Only the regular
files in the directory are sent, and we don't recurse to
subdirectories.""")
parser.add_argument('-o', '--output',
metavar='FILE',
help="""Print the composed message to FILE instead of
sending the message to the SMTP server.""")
parser.add_argument('-s', '--sender', required=True,
help='The value of the From: header (required)')
parser.add_argument('-r', '--recipient', required=True,
action='append', metavar='RECIPIENT',
default=[], dest='recipients',
help='A To: header value (at least one required)')
args = parser.parse_args()
directory = args.directory
if not directory:
directory = '.'
# Create the enclosing (outer) message
outer = MIMEMultipart()
outer['Subject'] = 'Contents of directory %s' % os.path.abspath(directory)
outer['To'] = COMMASPACE.join(args.recipients)
outer['From'] = args.sender
outer.preamble = 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n'
for filename in os.listdir(directory):
path = os.path.join(directory, filename)
if not os.path.isfile(path):
continue
# Guess the content type based on the file's extension. Encoding
# will be ignored, although we should check for simple things like
# gzip'd or compressed files.
ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path)
if ctype is None or encoding is not None:
# No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so
# use a generic bag-of-bits type.
ctype = 'application/octet-stream'
maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1)
if maintype == 'text':
with open(path) as fp:
# Note: we should handle calculating the charset
msg = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
elif maintype == 'image':
with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
msg = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
elif maintype == 'audio':
with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
msg = MIMEAudio(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
else:
with open(path, 'rb') as fp:
msg = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
msg.set_payload(fp.read())
# Encode the payload using Base64
encoders.encode_base64(msg)
# Set the filename parameter
msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
outer.attach(msg)
# Now send or store the message
composed = outer.as_string()
if args.output:
with open(args.output, 'w') as fp:
fp.write(composed)
else:
with smtplib.SMTP('localhost') as s:
s.sendmail(args.sender, args.recipients, composed)
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()