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author | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 (GMT) |
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committer | Georg Brandl <georg@python.org> | 2007-08-15 14:28:22 (GMT) |
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diff --git a/Doc/library/email-examples.rst b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..64a9944 --- /dev/null +++ b/Doc/library/email-examples.rst @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +:mod:`email`: Examples +---------------------- + +Here are a few examples of how to use the :mod:`email` package to read, write, +and send simple email messages, as well as more complex MIME messages. + +First, let's see how to create and send a simple text message: + +.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-simple.py + + +Here's an example of how to send a MIME message containing a bunch of family +pictures that may be residing in a directory: + +.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-mime.py + + +Here's an example of how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email +message: [1]_ + +.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-dir.py + + +And finally, here's an example of how to unpack a MIME message like the one +above, into a directory of files: + +.. literalinclude:: ../includes/email-unpack.py + + +.. rubric:: Footnotes + +.. [1] Thanks to Matthew Dixon Cowles for the original inspiration and examples. + |