1 #!/usr/bin/env python3 2 3 """Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message.""" 4 5 import os 6 import smtplib 7 # For guessing MIME type based on file name extension 8 import mimetypes 9 10 from argparse import ArgumentParser 11 12 from email.message import EmailMessage 13 from email.policy import SMTP 14 15 16 def main(): 17 parser = ArgumentParser(description="""\ 18 Send the contents of a directory as a MIME message. 19 Unless the -o option is given, the email is sent by forwarding to your local 20 SMTP server, which then does the normal delivery process. Your local machine 21 must be running an SMTP server. 22 """) 23 parser.add_argument('-d', '--directory', 24 help="""Mail the contents of the specified directory, 25 otherwise use the current directory. Only the regular 26 files in the directory are sent, and we don't recurse to 27 subdirectories.""") 28 parser.add_argument('-o', '--output', 29 metavar='FILE', 30 help="""Print the composed message to FILE instead of 31 sending the message to the SMTP server.""") 32 parser.add_argument('-s', '--sender', required=True, 33 help='The value of the From: header (required)') 34 parser.add_argument('-r', '--recipient', required=True, 35 action='append', metavar='RECIPIENT', 36 default=[], dest='recipients', 37 help='A To: header value (at least one required)') 38 args = parser.parse_args() 39 directory = args.directory 40 if not directory: 41 directory = '.' 42 # Create the message 43 msg = EmailMessage() 44 msg['Subject'] = f'Contents of directory {os.path.abspath(directory)}' 45 msg['To'] = ', '.join(args.recipients) 46 msg['From'] = args.sender 47 msg.preamble = 'You will not see this in a MIME-aware mail reader.\n' 48 49 for filename in os.listdir(directory): 50 path = os.path.join(directory, filename) 51 if not os.path.isfile(path): 52 continue 53 # Guess the content type based on the file's extension. Encoding 54 # will be ignored, although we should check for simple things like 55 # gzip'd or compressed files. 56 ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(path) 57 if ctype is None or encoding is not None: 58 # No guess could be made, or the file is encoded (compressed), so 59 # use a generic bag-of-bits type. 60 ctype = 'application/octet-stream' 61 maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1) 62 with open(path, 'rb') as fp: 63 msg.add_attachment(fp.read(), 64 maintype=maintype, 65 subtype=subtype, 66 filename=filename) 67 # Now send or store the message 68 if args.output: 69 with open(args.output, 'wb') as fp: 70 fp.write(msg.as_bytes(policy=SMTP)) 71 else: 72 with smtplib.SMTP('localhost') as s: 73 s.send_message(msg) 74 75 76 if __name__ == '__main__': 77 main() 78