Mastering Python Scripting for System Administrators

Adding HTML and multimedia content

In this section, we're going to see how we can send multimedia content as an attachment and how we can add HTML content. To do this, we'll use the Python email package.

First, we'll see how we can add HTML content. For that, create a script, add_html_content.py, and write the following content in it:

import osimport smtplibfrom email.mime.text import MIMETextfrom email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipartimport getpasshost_name = 'smtp.gmail.com'port = 465sender = 'sender_emailid'password = getpass.getpass()receiver = 'receiver_emailid'text = MIMEMultipart()text['Subject'] = 'Test HTML Content'text['From'] = sendertext['To'] = receivermsg = """\<html>  <body>    <p>Hello there, <br>       Good day !!<br> <a href="http://www.imdb.com">Home</a> ...