1.. _email-examples: 2 3:mod:`email`: Examples 4---------------------- 5 6Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, 7and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages. 8 9First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message: 10 11.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py 12 13 14And parsing RFC822 headers can easily be done by the parse(filename) or 15parsestr(message_as_string) methods of the Parser() class: 16 17.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py 18 19 20Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family 21pictures that may be residing in a directory: 22 23.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py 24 25 26Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email 27message: [1]_ 28 29.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py 30 31 32Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one 33above, into a directory of files: 34 35.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py 36 37Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain 38text version: [2]_ 39 40.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py 41 42 43.. rubric:: Footnotes 44 45.. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples. 46.. [2] Contributed by Martin Matejek. 47