Question

how can i send in-body attached images in a mail using python?
I found this: http://docs.python.org/library/email-examples.html but it has not an example with images.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Take a look at the big example of "how to send the entire contents of a directory as an email message". The image in the file fp is converted into the message part msg here:

msg = MIMEImage(fp.read(), _subtype=subtype)

and then the message part is attached to the outer message here:

msg.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=filename)
outer.attach(msg)

If you want the image to appear inline rather than as an attachment, you should set its Content-Disposition to inline instead of attachment.

(If you want to create HTML messages that display attached images, then you need to use the multipart/related MIME type defined in RFC 2387. Ask if you need help with this.)