A simple python script to email myself server logs. Meant to run as a cron job.

logs.py

import argparse
import os
import smtplib

from email import Encoders
from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
from email.Utils import formatdate


DIR = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))

LOGS = [
        os.path.join(DIR, 'logs', 'error.log'),
        os.path.join(DIR, 'logs', 'access.log')
]

def send_logs(host, user, password, send_to, send_from, client):
        """
        Sends the log file to send_to
        """
        msg = MIMEMultipart()
        msg['From'] = send_from
        msg['To'] = send_to
        msg['Subject'] = '{} Logs'.format(client)
        msg['Date'] = formatdate(localtime=True)

        for log in LOGS:
                part = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
                part.set_payload(open(log, 'rb').read())
                Encoders.encode_base64(part)
                part.add_header(
                        'Content-Disposition',
                        'attachment; filename={}'.format(os.path.basename(log))
                )
                msg.attach(part)

        try:
                server = smtplib.SMTP(host)
                server.starttls()
                server.login(user, password)
        except Exception, e:
                err = 'Something terrible happened: {}'.format(str(e))
                print err
                return False

        try:
                worked = server.sendmail(send_from, send_to, msg.as_string())
        except Exception, e:
                err = 'Unable to send email: {}'.format(str(e))
                print err
                return False
        finally:
                server.close()
        return True

def clean_logs():
        """
        Clear out the log files
        """
        for log in LOGS:
                with open(log, 'w') as l:
                        pass

def main():
        """
        The main deal.  Sets up an argument parser and calls send_logs and
        clean_logs
        """
        parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Email server logs')
        parser.add_argument('-s', '--server', dest='server',
                           default='smtp.gmail.com', help='The mail server')
        parser.add_argument('-u', '--user', dest='user', help='Email username')
        parser.add_argument('-p', '--password', dest='pw', help='Email password')
        parser.add_argument('-t', '--to', dest='to', help='Where to send')
        parser.add_argument('-f', '--from', dest='frm', help='Email from?')
        parser.add_argument('-c', '--client', dest='client', help='Client name')

        args = parser.parse_args()

        send_from = args.frm if args.frm is not None else args.user

        email_sent = send_logs(args.server, args.user, args.pw, args.to,
                                                     send_from, args.client)
        if email_sent:
                clean_logs()

if __name__ == '__main__':
        main()