Package: outbox
This is simplest SMTP client you’ll ever see. It’s 100% synchronous…UsageGive your app an outbox easily:from outbox import Outbox, Email, Attachment

# io.StringIO for Python 3 folks
from StringIO import StringIO

attachments = [
    Attachment('kittens.jpg', fileobj=open('ducks.jpg', 'rb')),
    Attachment('my-transient-file.bin', fileobj=StringIO('some raw data')),
]

outbox = Outbox(username='username', password='password',
        server='server', port=1234, mode='SSL')

outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', body='some nice sentiment',
        recipients=['nathan@getoffmalawn.com']), attachments=attachments)

# html email with attachments
outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', html_body='<b>SOME REALLY NICE SENTIMENT</b>',
        recipients=['nathan@getoffmalawn.com']), attachments=attachments)This method will log in to the server each timesend()is called.Alternatively, you can use Outbox as a context manager:with Outbox(username='username', password='password',
        server='server', port=1234, mode='SSL') as outbox:

    outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', body='some nice sentiment',
            recipients=['nathan@getoffmalawn.com']), attachments=attachments)

    # html email with attachments
    outbox.send(Email(subject='my subject', html_body='<b>SOME REALLY NICE SENTIMENT</b>',
            recipients=['nathan@getoffmalawn.com']), attachments=attachments)Using Outbox as a context manager has the added benefit of performing a single login to send all emails.InstallationInstalling Outbox.py is simple:$ pip install outboxChange History0.1.8 (24th June 2014)Thanks to Hideaki Takahashi for teh following contributions!Added RFC2047 style encoding support.Much improved support for multipart messages.0.1.7 (24th June 2014)Thanks to Hideaki Takahashi for submitting a MANIFEST, which allowsoutboxto be installed via pip again (broken in 0.1.6)0.1.6 (24th June 2014)AddedAnonymousOutbox, a class for connecting to servers that don’t perform authentication.Fleshed out documentation foroutbox.Email.Fixed a bug when using Python 3 (calling iteritems on a dict).Moved the project to Github.0.1.5 (3rd March 2013)Thanks to Peter Naudus for the following contributions!Added debug argument to Outbox class, to switch smtplib’s debugging.Added fields argument to Email class, to allow additional email fields to be set.Connection and disconnection are now exposed.Internal cleanup of some of the connection code.0.1.4 (29th October 2012)Handle passing a single recipient as a string, instead of forcing the recipient to be a list.Handle utf8 email properly. Thanks, Zhang Mingyuan!
I doubt I’ve covered every use case, so the charset to use can be passed in when constructing an Email.Added a sender_address method to the Outbox class, for when the username used for authentication isn’t good enough.0.1.3 (3rd July 2012)Made a few lines of code a bit easier to follow. No functional changes.Updated the license to actually hold copyright in my name, instead of Kenneth Reitz. Does this mean he owned copyright on the library up until now? Can I even change the license? I’m unsure.0.1.2 (2nd June 2012)Made Outbox a context manager, so it can be used with thewithstatement.
As noted in the example, this has the added benefit of performing a single login to send all emails, you should get better performance using a with statement.Removed raw and filepath arguments to Attachment. They were both begging to point to a file-like object, so that’s what you have now - an argument calledfileobjFixed annoying encoding error when trying to send binary attachments.The Email object does not have atypeargument anymore. Instead, there isbodyandhtml_body, so you can send an email with both html and plain-text bodies.0.1.1 (27th May 2012)Initial release