Simple Mail Sender

address.dat

[email protected]    Mr.Sample
[email protected]   Ms.Foo

mailsender.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

# Author: tacke758 ([email protected])
# Reference: http://labs.unoh.net/2007/06/python_2.html

import smtplib
import csv
import sys
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
from email.Header import Header
from email.Utils import formatdate
from getpass import getpass

if __name__ == '__main__':

    #********** Settings **********

    # utf8-encoded tab-delimited csv 
    # the first column is address and others are inserted strings
    csvfile = 'address.dat' 

    encoding = 'ISO-2022-JP'
    from_addr = '[email protected]'
    fromtxt_u = u'Registration'
    subject_u = u'subject here'

    smtp_user = from_addr
    smtp_server = 'smtp.gmail.com'
    smtp_port = 587

    # error occurrs when num of '%s' != num of csv's column - 1 
    content_u = u'''Dear %s
Thank you for your registration to our service.
Regards,

Foobar Web Service
    '''
    #******************************

    reader = csv.reader(file(csvfile, 'r'), delimiter='\t')
    password = getpass()

    s = smtplib.SMTP(smtp_server, smtp_port)
    s.ehlo()
    s.starttls()
    s.ehlo()
    s.login(smtp_user, password)

    for row in reader:
        to_addr = row[0]
        insert_strs = map((lambda s: unicode(s, 'utf-8', 'ignore')), row[1:])

        msg = MIMEText(content_u % tuple(insert_strs), 'plain', encoding)
        msg['Subject'] = Header(subject_u, encoding)
        msg['From'] = Header(fromtxt_u, encoding)
        msg['To'] = to_addr
        msg['Date'] = formatdate()

        s.sendmail(from_addr, [to_addr], msg.as_string())

        print 'sent to ' + to_addr

    s.close()
    print 'finished!'