Hello,
the simplest way to launch the user's standard mail client from a
Python program is by creating a mailto: URL and launching the
webbrowser:
def mailto_url(to=None,subject=None,body=None,cc=None):
"""
encodes the content as a mailto link as described on
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2368.html
Examples partly taken from
http://selfhtml.teamone.de/html/verweise/email.htm
"""
url = "mailto:"; + urllib.quote(to.strip(),"@,")
sep = "?"
if cc:
url+= sep + "cc=" + urllib.quote(cc,"@,")
sep = "&"
if subject:
url+= sep + "subject=" + urllib.quote(subject,"")
sep = "&"
if body:
# Also note that line breaks in the body of a message MUST be
# encoded with "%0D%0A". (RFC 2368)
body="\r\n".join(body.splitlines())
url+= sep + "body=" + urllib.quote(body,"")
sep = "&"
return url
import webbrowser
url = mailto_url(...)
webbrowser.open(url,new=1)
(Excerpt from
http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/lino/trunk/src/lino/tools/mail.py?op=file&rev=0&sc=0)
But this method is limited: you cannot specify a file to be attached
to the mail. And I guess that there would be problems if the body text
is too complex.
Does somebody know about a better method?
It should be possible at least on Windows, since Acrobat Reader is
able to do it.
Thanks in advance for any hints!
Luc Saffre
--
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
