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  1. scottsweb renamed this gist Jul 27, 2014. 1 changed file with 1 addition and 0 deletions.
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    ./gmail.py --help
    ./gmail.py --to [email protected] --fm [email protected] --subject "Hello World" --body "This is an email" --attach /path/to/file/test.jpg --username [email protected] --password mysecret --delete yes
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    ./gmail.py --to [email protected] --fm [email protected] --subject "Hello World" --body "This is an email" --attach /path/to/file/test.jpg --username [email protected] --password mysecret --delete yes
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    #!/usr/bin/python
    import argparse
    import os
    import smtplib

    from smtplib import SMTP_SSL
    from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
    from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
    from email.mime.text import MIMEText
    from email import encoders

    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Script to send an email via Gmail.')
    parser.add_argument('-t','--to', help='Send email to (e.g. [email protected])',required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-f','--fm',help='Email is from (e.g. [email protected])', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-s','--subject',help='Email subject', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-b','--body',help='Email body', required=False)
    parser.add_argument('-a','--attach',help='Path to attachment', required=False)
    parser.add_argument('-u','--username',help='Gmail username', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-p','--password',help='Gmail password', required=True)
    parser.add_argument('-d','--delete',help='Delete attachment after sending. Set to true to delete file', required=False)
    args = parser.parse_args()

    if (args.attach == ''):
    attach = False
    else:
    attach = args.attach

    if (args.delete == 'yes' and args.attach != False):
    delete = True
    else:
    delete = False

    def mail(to, frm, subject, body, attach, username, password, delete):

    msg = MIMEMultipart()
    msg['From'] = frm
    msg['To'] = to
    msg['Subject'] = subject

    msg.attach(MIMEText(body))

    if (attach):
    part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
    part.set_payload(open(attach, 'rb').read())
    encoders.encode_base64(part)
    part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment; filename="%s"' % os.path.basename(attach))
    msg.attach(part)

    try:
    server = SMTP_SSL("smtp.gmail.com", 465)
    server.login(username, password)
    server.sendmail(username, to, msg.as_string())
    #server.quit()
    server.close()
    print("Email sent")

    # delete photo? only if the email was sent
    if (delete):
    try:
    os.remove(attach)
    print("File deleted")
    except OSError as e:
    print("Failed with:", e.strerror)
    print("Error code:", e.code)

    except:
    print("Email failed")

    mail(args.to, args.fm, args.subject, args.body, attach, args.username, args.password, delete)