I am using the following snippet to send an email with an attachment. I want to add a message in the body describing the attachment, how do I do it? Currently I get the email with a blank body.
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg["From"] = emailfrom
msg["To"] = emailto
msg["Subject"] = subject
ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fileToSend)
if ctype is None or encoding is not None:
ctype = "application/octet-stream"
maintype, subtype = ctype.split("/", 1)
if maintype == "text":
fp = open(fileToSend)
# Note: we should handle calculating the charset
attachment = MIMEText(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
elif maintype == "image":
fp = open(fileToSend, "rb")
attachment = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
elif maintype == "audio":
fp = open(fileToSend, "rb")
attachment = MIMEAudio(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)
fp.close()
else:
fp = open(fileToSend, "rb")
attachment = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype)
attachment.set_payload(fp.read())
fp.close()
encoders.encode_base64(attachment)
attachment.add_header("Content-Disposition", "attachment", filename=os.path.basename(fileToSend))
msg.attach(attachment)
server = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
server.sendmail(emailfrom, emailto, msg.as_string())
server.quit()
This is how I did it:
body = "Text for body"
msg.attach(MIMEText(body,'plain'))
I did it after declaring subject and before attaching the file.