Learning Python Networking - Second Edition

Creating and sending an email with an attachment

Now, we will be sending an image attachment. This is a similar process to sending a plain text email. The only difference is that, here, we are using the MIMEImage class to create MIME message objects of image types. Follow these steps to get started:

1. Create an SMTP object for the connection to the server
2. Log in to your account
3. Define the headers of your messages and login credentials
4. Create a MIMEMultipart message object and attach the corresponding headers, that is, from, to, and subject
5. Read and attach the image to the MIMEMultipart object message
6. Finally, send the message

You can find the following code in the send_attachment_mail_from_gmail.py file:

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart ...