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I had created an Outlook template. Now I have to send that mail to many users. want to prepare a script that will fetch the CSV file which includes emails list and send it to them.
Outlook Template contains Coloured fonts and underlined text with multiple font sizes.

Use the smtplib that comes with python. Note that this will require your email account allows smtp, which is not necessarily enabled by default.
SERVER = "smtp.example.com"
FROM = "yourEmail#example.com"
TO = ["listOfEmails"] # must be a list
SUBJECT = "Subject"
TEXT = "Your Text"
# Prepare actual message
message = """From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\
%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)
# Send the mail
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()
EDIT: this example uses reserved domains like described in RFC2606
SERVER = "smtp.example.com"
FROM = "johnDoe#example.com"
TO = ["JaneDoe#example.com"] # must be a list
SUBJECT = "Hello!"
TEXT = "This is a test of emailing through smtp of example.com."
# Prepare actual message
message = """From: %s\r\nTo: %s\r\nSubject: %s\r\n\
%s
""" % (FROM, ", ".join(TO), SUBJECT, TEXT)
# Send the mail
import smtplib
server = smtplib.SMTP(SERVER)
server.login("MrDoe", "PASSWORD")
server.sendmail(FROM, TO, message)
server.quit()

Maybe take a look at the library yagmail.
From the top of the page:
import yagmail
yag = yagmail.SMTP()
contents = [
"This is the body, and here is just text http://somedomain/image.png",
"You can find an audio file attached.", '/local/path/to/song.mp3'
]
yag.send('to#someone.com', 'subject', contents)
# Alternatively, with a simple one-liner:
yagmail.SMTP('mygmailusername').send('to#someone.com', 'subject', contents)
When it comes to coloring and font changes - you'll have to use HTML for that. Define a body in a separate string and pass that into contents.

HTML and Plaintext email over Python through Zabbix

I'm working on a script that creates both an HTML and Plaintext email. This didn't seem like a hassle, but I can't hardcode the e-mail into the script I'm using. Allow me to explain why.
I'm using the Zabbix Monitoring system to keep an eye out for my systems. Allow me to use a printer for example. Once one of the toners is close to dying, I want both an HTML and plain text mail to be sent. Zabbix uses several macros however, which can be used to identify what system is being affected by what.
So, the HTML body needs to received before the script is run. Once the HTML body has been received with the correct values, it needs to have a plain copy too. As much as I'd like to have the plain-text contain the correct parameters (copied from the macros) too, I don't consider this a necessity.
This is what my script currently looks like.
#!/usr/bin/env python
list1=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4];
import mimetypes, os, smtplib, sys
from email import encoders
from email.mime.audio import MIMEAudio
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
me = "x"
you = "y"
DESTINATION=sys.argv[1]
SUBJECT=sys.argv[2]
MESSAGE=sys.argv[3]
PASS='password'
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
text = "A problem has been detected on {HOST.NAME} \n \n Trigger: {TRIGGER.NAME} \n Status: {TRIGGER.STATUS} \n Severity: {TRIGGER.SEVERITY} "
#html =
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
#part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
#msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('mysmtpserver')
s.ehlo()
s.starttls()
s.ehlo()
s.login(me, PASS)
# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
The reason why I can't have them being sent seperately or sending the HTML copy alone is because my e-mails get nuked by SpamAssassin. I'm intending to send certain error messages to my customers. So they are immediately notified when their toner is nearly empty, so they can place a new order. The HTML-email has been set up and has been working without failure.
So to put it onto perspective one more time.
Zabbix recieves an error.
There is a default HTML message written, macros become filled, this then needs to be imported to the script.
The script is then run.
There's an e-mail sent with both HTML content as well as the
plain-text for users that can't read the HTML-emails.
The reason the script is a mess is because I've already tried several options, but I can't seem to figure this one out.

Python: What is the correct MIME type for attaching html file to email

I've got a script that sends emails with html content in them.. works as expected...
I'm having trouble sending an attachment with the email.
The attachment is an html file stored in the active directory of the script... "test.html"
How do I attach the html file to the email? I've tried snippets from various other posts I've found relating to this, but each returned the same output of "no such file or directory".
code as follows:
import smtplib
import os
import email.encoders
import email.mime.text
import email.mime.base
import mimetools
import base64
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == Outgoing email address
# you == Recipient's email address
me = "secret"
you = "secret"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "TEST"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
emailMsg = email.MIMEMultipart.MIMEMultipart('alternative')
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>test</p>
</body>
</html>"""
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
filename = "C:/CHRIS/ServerStatus/Oceaneering_Server_Status.html"
f = file(filename)
attachment = MIMEText(f.read(), _subtype='html')
attachment.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
msg.attach(attachment)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
mail = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
mail.ehlo()
# mail.login(username, password) to Outgoing email account
mail.login('secret', 'secret')
mail.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
mail.quit()
i've updated my code in hopes to get this question back on topic... i've made a little progress with the help of Dirk and this link:
Attach a txt file in Python smtplib...
I've been able to physically send an attachment now, but the attachment is still coming through as a text type of file of sort and does not open as the original html file does.
So to reword my question... What is the corrective action for changing the MIME type of this code to correctly attach an .html file to an html based email?
The relative path and directory of my py script and the html file needed to be sent is as follows:
C:\CHRIS\ServerStatus\
This is the output i'm receiving with the code I have:
This is the way the html doc looks outside of the email script (The way it's supposed to look):

I would encourage you to use a library rather than deal with the -rather unpythonic- built-in mail modules, such as the highly recommended envelopes:
https://tomekwojcik.github.io/envelopes/index.html
install with:
pip install envelopes
Python code:
import os
from envelopes import Envelope
filename = "C:/CHRIS/ServerStatus/Oceaneering_Server_Status.html"
envelope = Envelope(
from_addr=(me),
to_addr=(you),
subject=u'Test',
text_body=u'Plain text version',
html_body=html
)
envelope.add_attachment(filename)
envelope.send('smtp.gmail.com', login='secret', password='secret', tls=True)

Python3 multipartmime email (text, email, and attachment)

I'm creating some emails in Python and I'd like to have HTML, text, and an attachment. My code is 'working', though its outputs are shown by Outlook as EITHER HTML or text, while showing the other 'part' (email or txt) as an attachment. I'd like to have the robust-ness of both email and text versions along with the file attachment.
Is there a fundamental limitation or am I making a mistake?
#!/usr/bin/env python3
import smtplib,email,email.encoders,email.mime.text,email.mime.base
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == my email address
# you == recipient's email address
me = "me#me.com"
you = "you#you.com"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('mixed')
msg['Subject'] = "msg"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "Hi\nThis is text-only"
html = """\
<html> This is email</html>
"""
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
#attach an excel file:
fp = open('excelfile.xlsx', 'rb')
file1=email.mime.base.MIMEBase('application','vnd.ms-excel')
file1.set_payload(fp.read())
fp.close()
email.encoders.encode_base64(file1)
file1.add_header('Content-Disposition','attachment;filename=anExcelFile.xlsx')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part2)
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(file1)
composed = msg.as_string()
fp = open('msgtest.eml', 'w')
fp.write(composed)
fp.close()

I found this has in fact been answered. Strange how the search feature is less effective than the 'related' boxes.
Sending Multipart html emails which contain embedded images

HTML email in Python

I'm trying to send an HTML email using smtplib. But I need the HTML content to have a table that is populated using values from a dictionary. I did look at the examples on the Python website. But it doesn't explain how to embed Python code within HTML. Any solutions/suggestions?
I also looked at this question. Can I just format it this way?
.format(dict_name)

From your link:
Here’s an example of how to create an HTML message with an alternative
plain text version: 2
import smtplib
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
# me == my email address
# you == recipient's email address
me = "my#email.com"
you = "your#email.com"
# Create message container - the correct MIME type is multipart/alternative.
msg = MIMEMultipart('alternative')
msg['Subject'] = "Link"
msg['From'] = me
msg['To'] = you
# Create the body of the message (a plain-text and an HTML version).
text = "Hi!\nHow are you?\nHere is the link you wanted:\nhttp://www.python.org"
html = """\
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<p>Hi!<br>
How are you?<br>
Here is the link you wanted.
</p>
</body>
</html>
"""
and the sending section of it:
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
part1 = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
part2 = MIMEText(html, 'html')
# Attach parts into message container.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case
# the HTML message, is best and preferred.
msg.attach(part1)
msg.attach(part2)
# Send the message via local SMTP server.
s = smtplib.SMTP('localhost')
# sendmail function takes 3 arguments: sender's address, recipient's address
# and message to send - here it is sent as one string.
s.sendmail(me, you, msg.as_string())
s.quit()
Edit 2022: for new comers, please advise with python’s latest stable release docs.

What you need is a template engine. That is, you need a python library that reads a file written in both HTML and code, interprets the code written within the HTML file (e.g. code that retrieves values from a dictionary), and then produces an HTML file for you.
The python wiki seems to have some suggestions