How do I send a file as an attachment by email without automatically renaming it?

Question

I am beginner in sending emails via script and am facing a problem. I use Python 3.5. When sending attachments with the following script, they lose the extension and are renamed:

def enviaremail(usuario,senha,mensagem,listadestinatarios):
    from smtplib import SMTP
    smtp=SMTP('smtp.live.com',587)
    smtp.starttls()
    smtp.login(usuario,senha)
    smtp.sendmail(usuario,listadestinatarios,mensagem)
    smtp.quit()
    print('E-mail enviado com sucesso')
def anexoimagem(path):
    from email.mime.image import MIMEImage
    with open(path,'rb') as f:
        mime=MIMEImage(f.read(),subtype='jpg')
    return mime
msg=anexoimagem('foto.jpg')
msg['From']='[email protected]'
msg['To']='[email protected]'
msg['Subject']='testando mensagem com anexo'
enviaremail('[email protected]','xxxx',msg.as_string,['[email protected]']

For example, the photo.jpg file appears as ATT0001 in the email. Renamed and without the . jpg extension it has. The same is true for text and audio files. How do I keep your name and extension when sending as attachments?

Answer 1

You are not setting the name of the attachment, so a generated name is being used. Try changing the line:

mime=MIMEImage(f.read(),subtype='jpg')

for:

mime=MIMEImage(f.read(),subtype='jpg', name=os.path.basename(path))

Of course, to use the function basename you will need to import the package os:

import os

You can also indicate the file name in the MIME header before the call enviaremail:

msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename='foto.jpg')

Behold that example in the documentation.

Editing

Here’s a small example code that does just that: reads an image of the file with the name "img.jpg" and sends it in the email as if its name were "Ó o auê aí, ô.jpg":

import smtplib

from email.mime.multipart import MIMEMultipart
from email.mime.text import MIMEText
from email.mime.image import MIMEImage

smtp_server = '<seu servidor aqui>'
smtp_port = <porta>
acc_addr = '<seu email aqui>'
acc_pwd = '<sua senha aqui>'

to_addr = '<seu destinatário aqui>'
subject = 'Teste do SOPT!'
body = 'Este é um teste de envio de email via Python!'

# Configura o servidor de envio (SMTP)
server = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, smtp_port)
server.starttls()
server.login(acc_addr, acc_pwd)

# Cria o documento com várias partes
msg = MIMEMultipart()
msg["From"] = acc_addr
msg["To"] = to_addr
msg["Subject"] = subject

# Anexa a imagem
imgFilename = 'Ó o auê aí, ô.jpg' # Repare que é diferente do nome do arquivo local!
with open('img.jpg', 'rb') as f:
    msgImg = MIMEImage(f.read(), name=imgFilename)
msg.attach(msgImg)

# Anexa o corpo do texto
msgText = MIMEText('<b>{}</b><br><img src="cid:{}"><br>'.format(body, imgFilename), 'html')
msg.attach(msgText)

# Envia!
server.sendmail(acc_addr, to_addr, msg.as_string())
server.quit()

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