[reportlab-users] RE: Emailing Corrupting reportlab PDFs

[John Pywtorak]

On Friday 28 May 2004 03:02 am, Marius Gedminas wrote:
*snip*
> Wouldn't Python's smtplib and email modules solve the problem?  You can
> send correctly MIME-encoded email directly instead of scripting Outlook.
>
> Marius Gedminas

Here is how I do it, which works 99% of the time.  Python makes it a snap.  If 
there is some improvement, please feel free to share.

def email_pdf(file, address):
    from cStringIO import StringIO
    from email.Message import Message
    from email.Generator import Generator
    import smtplib
    import base64
    import quopri

    msg = Message()
    msg.add_header("From", FROM)
    msg.add_header("To", address)
    msg.add_header("Subject", "YOUR SUBJECT")
    msg.add_header("MIME-Version", "1.0")
    msg.add_header("Content-Type", "multipart/mixed")
    msg.preamble = "Unable to read this email, please upgrage your mail 
client\n"
    msg.epilogue = "" # Ensure the message ends with a newline.

    # Text, or the body of the message attachment.
    body = Message()
    body.add_header("Content-Type", "text/plain", charset = "us-ascii")
    body.add_header("Content-Transfer-Encoding", "quoted-printable")
    body.set_payload(quopri.encodestring("YOUR BODY MSG", 1))
    msg.attach(body)

    # The PDF Audit attachment.
    pdfm = Message()
    pdfm.add_header("Content-type", "application/pdf", name = file)
    pdfm.add_header("Content-transfer-encoding", "base64")
    pdfe = StringIO()

    try:
        pdf = open(file, "rb")
        base64.encode(pdf, pdfe)
    finally:
        pdf.close()

    pdfm.set_payload(pdfe.getvalue())
    msg.attach(pdfm)
    addr_list = [ address, ]

    try:
        smtp = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.server.com")
        smtp.sendmail(
            "YOUR FROM ADDRESS",
            addr_list,
            msg.as_string()
        )
    finally:
        smtp.quit()