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send_email_aws_ses.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

# send.py -s “Subject” -b “Body” -r “recipient” 

import sys
#from smtplib import SMTP_SSL as SMTP
from smtplib import SMTP
#from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.mime.text import MIMEText

import argparse

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument(‘-s’, action=’store’, dest=’subject_value’,
 help=’Store a subject value’)
parser.add_argument(‘-b’, action=’store’, dest=’body_value’,
 help=’Store a body value’)
parser.add_argument(‘-r’, action=’store’, dest=’recipient_value’,
 help=’Store a recipient value’)
result = parser.parse_args()
print result.recipient_value
def alert():
 smtp_server = ‘email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com’
 #smtp_port = 587
 smtp_port = 25
user = ‘AWS ACCESS KEY’
password = ‘AWS SECRET KEY’
sender = ‘yourdomain.com’
 destination = [result.recipient_value]
 text_subtype = ‘html’
content = result.body_value
 subject = result.subject_value
try:
 msg = MIMEText(content, text_subtype)
 msg[‘Subject’]= subject
 msg[‘From’] = sender
 msg[‘To’] = ‘,’.join(destination)
conn = SMTP(smtp_server, smtp_port)
 conn.set_debuglevel(1)
 conn.ehlo()
 conn.starttls()
 conn.ehlo()
 conn.login(user, password)
try:
 if conn.sendmail(sender, destination, msg.as_string()):
 print “Successful!”
 finally:
 conn.close()
except Exception, exc:
 sys.exit(“Mail failed; %s” % str(exc))
alert()