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Send HTML email with attachment with python boto3 for Amazon SES
"""
Helper module to send emails with Amazon SES (Simple Email Service).
Sending an email with boto3 is relatively easy, but adding an attachment requires more work.
"""
import os
import boto3
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.application import MIMEApplication
def create_multipart_message(
sender: str, recipients: list, title: str, text: str=None, html: str=None, attachments: list=None)\
-> MIMEMultipart:
"""
Creates a MIME multipart message object.
Uses only the Python `email` standard library.
Emails, both sender and recipients, can be just the email string or have the format 'The Name <the_email@host.com>'.
:param sender: The sender.
:param recipients: List of recipients. Needs to be a list, even if only one recipient.
:param title: The title of the email.
:param text: The text version of the email body (optional).
:param html: The html version of the email body (optional).
:param attachments: List of files to attach in the email.
:return: A `MIMEMultipart` to be used to send the email.
"""
multipart_content_subtype = 'alternative' if text and html else 'mixed'
msg = MIMEMultipart(multipart_content_subtype)
msg['Subject'] = title
msg['From'] = sender
msg['To'] = ', '.join(recipients)
# Record the MIME types of both parts - text/plain and text/html.
# According to RFC 2046, the last part of a multipart message, in this case the HTML message, is best and preferred.
if text:
part = MIMEText(text, 'plain')
msg.attach(part)
if html:
part = MIMEText(html, 'html')
msg.attach(part)
# Add attachments
for attachment in attachments or []:
with open(attachment, 'rb') as f:
part = MIMEApplication(f.read())
part.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=os.path.basename(attachment))
msg.attach(part)
return msg
def send_mail(
sender: str, recipients: list, title: str, text: str=None, html: str=None, attachments: list=None) -> dict:
"""
Send email to recipients. Sends one mail to all recipients.
Emails, both sender and recipients, can be just the email string or have the format 'The Name <the_email@host.com>'.
:param sender: The sender. Needs to be a verified email in SES.
:param recipients: List of recipients. Needs to be a list, even if only one recipient.
:param title: The title of the email.
:param text: The text version of the email body (optional).
:param html: The html version of the email body (optional).
:param attachments: List of files to attach in the email.
"""
msg = create_multipart_message(sender, recipients, title, text, html, attachments)
ses_client = boto3.client('ses', region_name='us-west-2')
return ses_client.send_raw_email(
Source=sender,
Destinations=recipients,
RawMessage={'Data': msg.as_string()}
)
if __name__ == '__main__':
sender_ = 'The Sender <the_sender@email.com>'
recipients_ = ['Recipient One <recipient_1@email.com>', 'recipient_2@email.com']
title_ = 'Email title here'
text_ = 'The text version\nwith multiple lines.'
body_ = """<html><head></head><body><h1>A header 1</h1><br>Some text."""
attachments_ = ['/path/to/file1/filename1.txt', '/path/to/file2/filename2.txt']
response_ = send_mail(sender_, recipients_, title_, text_, body_, attachments_)
print(response_)
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