.. _email-examples: :mod:`email`: Examples ---------------------- Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages. First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message: .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py And parsing RFC822 headers can easily be done by the parse(filename) or parsestr(message_as_string) methods of the Parser() class: .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-headers.py Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family pictures that may be residing in a directory: .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email message: [1]_ .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py Here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one above, into a directory of files: .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py Here's an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative plain text version: [2]_ .. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-alternative.py .. rubric:: Footnotes .. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples. .. [2] Contributed by Martin Matejek.