Send Email in pcDuino by Script and Python

alvin_jin over 12 years ago

In this post, we describe how to send email in pcDuino by script and Python.

First let us look at send email by script:

Install the packages:

$sudo apt-get install ssmtp

$sudo apt-get install mailutils

$sudo apt-get install mpack

Next we configure SSMTP:

1	`$sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf`

Now we edit the fields,

AuthUser=youruserid@gmail.com

AuthPass=userpass

FromLineOverride=YES

mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587

UseSTARTTLS=YES

To send email, using:

1	`$echo "sample text" \| mail -s "Subject" username@domain.tld`

If we want to send email with attachment,

1	`$mpack -s "test" /home/pi/test/somefile.ext username@domain.tld`

Now we begin to look at the Python script used to send email:

#!/usr/bin/python 
#-*- coding: utf-8 -*-
import smtplib
 
server= 'smtp.gmail.com'
port = 587
 
sender = 'sender@gmail.com'
recipient = 'receiver@linksprite.com'
password='password'
subject = 'Greeting from pcDuino'
body = 'Welcome to pcDuino!'
 
"Sends an e-mail to the specified recipient."
 
body = "" + body + ""
 
headers = ["From: " + sender,
           "Subject: " + subject,
           "To: " + recipient,
           "MIME-Version: 1.0",
           "Content-Type: text/html"]
headers = "\r\n".join(headers)
 
session = smtplib.SMTP(server, port)
 
session.ehlo()
session.starttls()
session.ehlo
session.login(sender, password)
 
session.sendmail(sender, recipient, headers + "\r\n\r\n" + body)
session.quit()

To run the code, copy the above code and save to reportbyemail.py do:

1	`$python reportbyemail.py`

We will then receive the email: