⚡ Python Power Shots – 📧 Send Emails with Attachments

Posted on: December 8, 2025

Description:

📌 Introduction

Sending emails manually is slow — especially when you need to attach documents, screenshots, logs, or reports.

This Power Shot uses Python’s built-in smtplib and email libraries to send fully formatted emails with attachments. No external packages needed, and works with any SMTP provider (Gmail, Outlook, custom domain mail, etc.).

🔎 Explanation

MIMEMultipart → builds a structured email container.
MIMEText → adds body text.
MIMEBase + encoders → loads and attaches files using Base64.
smtplib.SMTP() → connects to your mail server and sends the message.

You can automate:

daily reports
log exports
dataset files
screenshots
alerts and notifications

✅ Key Takeaways

📧 Send automated emails with attachments from Python.
🔒 Works with Gmail, Outlook, or any SMTP server.
🧰 Uses only built-in modules — no third-party dependencies.

Code Snippet:

try:
    with open(filename, "rb") as attachment:
        mime_base = MIMEBase("application", "octet-stream")
        mime_base.set_payload(attachment.read())

    # Encode file in base64
    encoders.encode_base64(mime_base)
    mime_base.add_header("Content-Disposition", f"attachment; filename={filename}")

    # Attach to email
    message.attach(mime_base)

except FileNotFoundError:
    print(f"❌ File '{filename}' not found.")
    exit()

# --- Step 5: Connect to SMTP server and send email ---
try:
    # Gmail example (uses TLS)
    server = smtplib.SMTP("smtp.gmail.com", 587)
    server.starttls()  # Secure the connection
    server.login(sender_email, sender_password)
    server.send_message(message)
    server.quit()

    print("✅ Email sent successfully!")

except Exception as e:
    print("❌ Error sending email:", e)

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⚡ Python Power Shots – 📧 Send Emails with Attachments

Description:

📌 Introduction

🔎 Explanation

✅ Key Takeaways

Code Snippet:

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