I came up with the following python to send an email with attachment. the text file is located c:/python/20180227.txt (the dated file is changed daily based on current date, so tomorroow it would be 20180228.txt and so forth). When i run the below the attached text is showing
up IN MY EMAIL AS "CPYTHON20180227.txt". instead of 20180227.txt . Can someone please assist
up IN MY EMAIL AS "CPYTHON20180227.txt". instead of 20180227.txt . Can someone please assist
import smtplib
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.base import MIMEBase
from email import encoders
from datetime import datetime
datestring = datetime.strftime(datetime.now(), '%Y%M%D')
email_user = '[email protected]'
email_send = '[email protected]'
subject = 'Python!'
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg['From'] = email_user
msg['To'] = email_send
msg['Subject'] = subject
body = 'Just testing the email server from Python'
msg.attach(MIMEText(body,'plain'))
filename = "C:/PYTHON/" + datestring + '.txt' #### i believe this is where my error is ?????
attachment = open(filename, 'rb') #enter file path as filename
part = MIMEBase('application','octet-stream')
part.set_payload(attachment.read())
encoders.encode_base64(part)
part.add_header('Content-Disposition' "attachment; filename= "+filename)
msg.attach(part)
text= msg.as_string()
server = smtplib.SMTP('email server', port)
server.starttls()
server.login(email_user, "password" )
message = 'Test from Python'
server.sendmail(email_user, email_send, text)
server.quit()
