Example 4-1. Retrieving email using POP3 #!/usr/bin/env python import poplib username = 'someuser' password = 'S3Cr37' mail_server = 'mail.somedomain.com' p = poplib.POP3(mail_server) p.user(username) p.pass_(password) for msg_id in p.list()[1]: print msg_id outf = open('%s.eml' % msg_id, 'w') outf.write('\n'.join(p.retr(msg_id)[1])) outf.close() p.quit() Example 4-2. Retrieving email using IMAP #!/usr/bin/env python import imaplib username = 'some_user' password = '70P53Cr37' mail_server = 'mail_server' i = imaplib.IMAP4_SSL(mail_server) print i.login(username, password) print i.select('INBOX') for msg_id in i.search(None, 'ALL')[1][0].split(): print msg_id outf = open('%s.eml' % msg_id, 'w') outf.write(i.fetch(msg_id, '(RFC822)')[1][0][1]) outf.close() i.logout() Example 4-3. “Hello World” PDF #!/usr/bin/env python from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas def hello(): c = canvas.Canvas("helloworld.pdf") c.drawString(100,100,"Hello World") c.showPage() c.save() hello() Example 4-4. Disk report PDF #!/usr/bin/env python import subprocess import datetime from reportlab.pdfgen import canvas from reportlab.lib.units import inch def disk_report(): p = subprocess.Popen("df -h", shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE) return p.stdout.readlines() def create_pdf(input,output="disk_report.pdf"): now = datetime.datetime.today() date = now.strftime("%h %d %Y %H:%M:%S") c = canvas.Canvas(output) textobject = c.beginText() textobject.setTextOrigin(inch, 11*inch) textobject.textLines(''' Disk Capacity Report: %s ''' % date) for line in input: textobject.textLine(line.strip()) c.drawText(textobject) c.showPage() c.save() report = disk_report() create_pdf(report) Example 4-5. Sending messages with SMTP #!/usr/bin/env python import smtplib mail_server = 'localhost' mail_server_port = 25 from_addr = '[email protected]' to_addr = '[email protected]' from_header = 'From: %s\r\n' % from_addr to_header = 'To: %s\r\n\r\n' % to_addr subject_header = 'Subject: nothing interesting' body = 'This is a not-very-interesting email.' email_message = '%s\n%s\n%s\n\n%s' % (from_header, to_header, subject_header, body) s = smtplib.SMTP(mail_server, mail_server_port) s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, email_message) s.quit() Example 4-6. SMTP authentication #!/usr/bin/env python import smtplib mail_server = 'smtp.example.com' mail_server_port = 465 from_addr = '[email protected]' to_addr = '[email protected]' from_header = 'From: %s\r\n' % from_addr to_header = 'To: %s\r\n\r\n' % to_addr subject_header = 'Subject: Testing SMTP Authentication' body = 'This mail tests SMTP Authentication' email_message = '%s\n%s\n%s\n\n%s' % (from_header, to_header, subject_header, body) s = smtplib.SMTP(mail_server, mail_server_port) s.set_debuglevel(1) s.starttls() s.login("fatalbert", "mysecretpassword") s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, email_message) s.quit() Example 4-7. Sending a PDF attachment email import email from email.MIMEText import MIMEText from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase from email import encoders import smtplib import mimetypes from_addr = '[email protected]' to_addr = '[email protected]' subject_header = 'Subject: Sending PDF Attachemt' attachment = 'disk_usage.pdf' body = ''' This message sends a PDF attachment created with Report Lab. ''' m = MIMEMultipart() m["To"] = to_addr m["From"] = from_addr m["Subject"] = subject_header ctype, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(attachment) print ctype, encoding maintype, subtype = ctype.split('/', 1) print maintype, subtype m.attach(MIMEText(body)) fp = open(attachment, 'rb') msg = MIMEBase(maintype, subtype) msg.set_payload(fp.read()) fp.close() encoders.encode_base64(msg) msg.add_header("Content-Disposition", "attachment", filename=attachment) m.attach(msg) s = smtplib.SMTP("localhost") s.set_debuglevel(1) s.sendmail(from_addr, to_addr, m.as_string()) s.quit()