fromaddr = "xxx@gmail.com" (1)
toaddr = "yyy@gmail.com" (2)
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "Resume for Data Scientist Profile" (3)Python send GMAIL with attachment
Upasana | December 25, 2019 | 2 min read | 30 views
Here, we are going to learn how to send email with attachment in python. We will be using smtplib for email via gmail client.
Define sender & recipient
| 1 | Email of sender |
| 2 | Email of recipient |
| 3 | Subject of Email |
Define body of the email
body = "Please find attached my resume" (1)
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))| 1 | Body of the email |
Attach the file
path = "xx/yyy/" (1)
filename = "resume.pdf" (2)
attachment = open(path + filename, "rb")
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)
msg.attach(part)| 1 | Define path of file that we want to attach in the email |
| 2 | Define filename that we want to send as attachment in the email |
Setup Server and send email
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "****password****")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()Now the whole script for sending email will be like below :
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
import smtplib
fromaddr = "xxx@gmail.com"
toaddr = "yyy@gmail.com"
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = fromaddr
msg['To'] = toaddr
msg['Subject'] = "Resume for Data Scientist Profile"
body = "Hi, Please find attached my resume. Thanks, Carvia"
msg.attach(MIMEText(body, 'plain'))
path = "xx/yyy/"
filename = "resume.pdf"
attachment = open(path + filename, "rb")
part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
part.set_payload((attachment).read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', "attachment; filename= %s" % filename)
msg.attach(part)
server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
server.starttls()
server.login(fromaddr, "***password***")
text = msg.as_string()
server.sendmail(fromaddr, toaddr, text)
server.quit()Since we are sending email via a gmail, google will not allow you to log in via smtplib because it has flagged this login as less secure.
So In order to allow us to send email via gmail, you will have to login to your gmail or sender’s gmail account and then visit this link :
When you will visit this link, you will see this
Click on the slider to allow less secure apps. Once, this is ON we will be able to send email via gmail account.
Run the script and check if received email
Run the file and you shall have received email with attachment. That means we are good to go.
I hope this helped you. Thanks for reading the article.
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