Send Email in pcDuino by Script and Python

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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:

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$sudo apt-get install ssmtp
$sudo apt-get install mailutils
$sudo apt-get install mpack

Next we configure SSMTP:

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$sudo nano /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf

Now we edit the fields,

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AuthUser=youruserid@gmail.com
AuthPass=userpass
FromLineOverride=YES
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:587
UseSTARTTLS=YES

To send email, using:

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

If we want to send email with attachment,

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

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

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#!/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 = "rn".join(headers)
session = smtplib.SMTP(server, port)
session.ehlo()
session.starttls()
session.ehlo
session.login(sender, password)
session.sendmail(sender, recipient, headers + "rnrn" + body)
session.quit()

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

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$python reportbyemail.py

We will then receive the email:

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