1 00:00:02,590 --> 00:00:08,740 Hi, welcome back! In this video, I'll show you how to send an email which contains an attachment, 2 00:00:09,100 --> 00:00:10,900 a file attached to the email. 3 00:00:11,200 --> 00:00:14,920 And we're going to send the email from Hotmail or Outlook. 4 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:19,600 So the code you're looking at is the code we've built in the previous video. 5 00:00:20,110 --> 00:00:30,460 And all we have to do is just add some codes here just before we establish the server connection and 6 00:00:30,460 --> 00:00:32,290 sending the email. 7 00:00:32,710 --> 00:00:35,590 So between that and that code. 8 00:00:36,610 --> 00:00:44,410 So we're not going to touch this code or that one, just add the code that prepares the attachment. 9 00:00:45,670 --> 00:00:51,640 We will start from declaring the path to the file 10 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:55,090 we want to attach, attachment_path, for example. 11 00:00:55,900 --> 00:01:00,670 Now I don't have any file here, so you need a file in your project directory. 12 00:01:01,090 --> 00:01:04,239 So just upload any file that you have in your computer. 13 00:01:04,420 --> 00:01:05,319 It doesn't matter. 14 00:01:05,590 --> 00:01:14,830 So I'm going to just go to upload file and I have something here tiger.jpeg. 15 00:01:14,830 --> 00:01:17,140 So it's a picture. You can upload any file. 16 00:01:19,170 --> 00:01:24,210 So now this is in my local directory here, in my project root directory. 17 00:01:24,540 --> 00:01:32,170 That means I can point to that file by just writing the name tiger.jpeg, like that. 18 00:01:32,910 --> 00:01:37,350 So the files should be in the same direction with your main.py file. 19 00:01:38,040 --> 00:01:40,410 With this script, then 20 00:01:42,990 --> 00:01:48,120 attachment_file is equal to open 21 00:01:50,020 --> 00:01:51,220 attachment_path 22 00:01:52,980 --> 00:01:54,750 in 'rb' mode. 23 00:01:55,710 --> 00:02:00,300 So what we're doing is we are creating a Python file object. 24 00:02:01,050 --> 00:02:07,950 This function actually returns a file object, so it gets that path and it creates a file object, 25 00:02:08,130 --> 00:02:10,380 which we're going to need later on. 26 00:02:11,970 --> 00:02:15,090 Next, we're going to create a so-called pay load 27 00:02:16,620 --> 00:02:26,370 which is equal to MIMEBase, which is an object of the MIME protocol, and we need to import that 28 00:02:26,370 --> 00:02:26,940 also. 29 00:02:27,390 --> 00:02:36,510 So go to the import and say from email.mime.base mind import MIMEBase. 30 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:39,410 So we instantiate that here. 31 00:02:40,530 --> 00:02:42,690 The first argument is application. 32 00:02:42,930 --> 00:02:49,530 So these are some protocols that you need to declare in the form of strings. 33 00:02:49,950 --> 00:02:52,140 Octate-stream is the second one. 34 00:02:53,790 --> 00:03:04,080 And then you point to payload, the variable and then call the set_payload method which expects 35 00:03:04,080 --> 00:03:13,620 as argument the file object, which is attachment file, and actually it expects the contents of that 36 00:03:13,620 --> 00:03:14,610 file object. 37 00:03:14,970 --> 00:03:22,830 So to get the contents you need to use read. The read method extract the contents from that file. 38 00:03:23,190 --> 00:03:29,970 So this basically is the contents of that tiger.jpeg file in binary mode. 39 00:03:32,620 --> 00:03:42,670 Then you also need to add a header to payload using the add_header method which expose the name, 40 00:03:42,670 --> 00:03:51,580 which should be 'Content-disposition', disposition, so be careful with that, content disposition. 41 00:03:52,300 --> 00:04:00,370 The second argument is you want to declare that this is about attachments, and then the last argument of the 42 00:04:00,460 --> 00:04:08,980 add_header method is the filename argument, which is equal to attachment_path. 43 00:04:09,010 --> 00:04:09,610 Why? 44 00:04:09,940 --> 00:04:15,970 Well, because this contains the name of the file you want to attach. 45 00:04:15,970 --> 00:04:24,430 So file name, whatever you place here is going to be used as the name of the file attached in the email. 46 00:04:24,670 --> 00:04:33,430 If you don't have this argument, then Python will set a generic file name for the attached file, 47 00:04:33,580 --> 00:04:37,840 so it makes sense to have the same name as the original name here. 48 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:43,120 So I'm going to place here attachment file path, and that's it. 49 00:04:43,420 --> 00:04:49,630 Finally, you want to say message.attach and you want to attach to the payload variable. 50 00:04:50,530 --> 00:04:52,810 So that one that we created in here. 51 00:04:52,810 --> 00:04:57,970 And we added the contents of the file and the header to that attachment. 52 00:04:58,990 --> 00:05:00,700 And that's it. 53 00:05:01,810 --> 00:05:02,650 Run the code. 54 00:05:04,740 --> 00:05:06,720 And look at the output. 55 00:05:07,050 --> 00:05:10,470 So this one in here is the content, which is binary. 56 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,130 So this message here 57 00:05:14,130 --> 00:05:17,880 it contains some binary codes because of the jpeg file. 58 00:05:18,060 --> 00:05:21,720 But then we have this Unicode error. To fix this, 59 00:05:22,140 --> 00:05:26,190 You want to import in the imports lines in here, 60 00:05:26,460 --> 00:05:36,780 you want to import from email import encoders and then use that encoders just after you set the 61 00:05:36,780 --> 00:05:37,740 payload. 62 00:05:38,610 --> 00:05:46,860 So between set payload and add header, you want to point to the encoders and then to the encode 63 00:05:46,860 --> 00:05:53,490 base64 method and then enter payload there. 64 00:05:54,630 --> 00:05:59,160 So that will convert the payload into base64 format. 65 00:05:59,820 --> 00:06:04,230 So basically, it will convert the attachment into this base64 format. 66 00:06:04,620 --> 00:06:05,370 So run again. 67 00:06:08,210 --> 00:06:09,440 No errors. 68 00:06:10,250 --> 00:06:11,640 Let's check the email. 69 00:06:12,740 --> 00:06:14,220 You'll have to wait a while. 70 00:06:14,280 --> 00:06:16,790 Yeah, so that's the email. 71 00:06:20,550 --> 00:06:27,510 So hi there. That's the text, so the body of the email and the attachment tiger.jpeg. 72 00:06:29,140 --> 00:06:31,810 So that concludes this video. 73 00:06:31,840 --> 00:06:39,250 This is how you send an email and attach a file to that email using Outlook or Hotmail. 74 00:06:39,490 --> 00:06:42,970 So thank you for following and let's have some more videos. 75 00:06:42,980 --> 00:06:45,460 That's a lot of content in the course, so I'll see you later.