I want to sends an email but sent mail is empty. how to send an email, and then put a copy of it in the "Sent" mail folder. what can i do?
Yes, its possible.
Basicaly you need to create an MIME email and then send it throug smptlib and than save it on Sent with imaplib.
The official imaplib documentation.
Here is a more detailed example of using imaplib
:
import time
import ssl
import imaplib
import smtplib
import email
from email import encoders
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
class Mail:
def __init__(self):
# considering the same user and pass for smtp an imap
self.mail_user = 'youruser@yourdomain.com'
self.mail_pass = 'pass'
self.mail_host = 'mail.yourdomain'
def send_email(self, to, subject, body, path, attach):
message = MIMEMultipart()
message["From"] = self.mail_user
message["To"] = to
message["Subject"] = subject
message.attach(MIMEText(body, "plain"))
with open(path + attach, "rb") as attachment:
part = MIMEBase("application", "octet-stream")
part.set_payload(attachment.read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header(
"Content-Disposition",
"attachment; filename= \"" + attach + "\"",
)
message.attach(part)
text = message.as_string()
context = ssl.create_default_context()
with smtplib.SMTP_SSL(self.mail_host, 465, context=context) as server:
result = server.login(self.mail_user, self.mail_pass)
server.sendmail(self.mail_user, to, text)
imap = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(self.mail_host, 993)
imap.login(self.mail_user, self.mail_pass)
imap.append('INBOX.Sent', '\\Seen', imaplib.Time2Internaldate(time.time()), text.encode('utf8'))
imap.logout()
if __name__ == '__main__':
m = Mail()
m.send_email('someone@somewhere.com', 'Hello', 'Its just a test!', 'c:\\', 'test.pdf')