I said:
Where does mail.py get the body from at the moment? And how are you
invoking mail.py? The obvious would be to import mail.py and call a
function in it; then, you would just need to change the string you pass
to the function. But presumably that's not how you've got it set up or
you wouldn't be asking the question. If you can explain a bit more how
your program works that would be helpful, maybe post an exerpt of the
code that shows where mail.py gets invoked from the main program, and
the bit of mail.py that accesses the body that gets sent.
mail currently gets the body from an input box.
this is where mail.py gets invoked:
<h1>Email Results</h1>
<p>
<Table>
<FORM METHOD="post" ACTION="mail.py">
<TR><TD>SMTP Server:</TD>
<TD><input type="text" name="SMTP Server"
value="webmail.wharton.upenn.edu" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Username:</TD>
<TD><input type="text" name="Username" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Password:</TD>
<TD><input type="password" name="Password" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>From:</TD>
<TD><input type="text" name="From" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>To:</TD>
<TD><input type="text" name="To" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Subject:</TD>
<TD><input type="text" name="Subject" size=20>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD>Message:</TD>
<TD><TEXTAREA wrap="virtual" name="Message" cols=40 rows=5>
</TEXTAREA></TD></TR>
<TR><TD></TD><TD><input type="submit" value="Submit"><input type="reset">
</form></TD></TR></Table></HTML>"""
this is mail.py
#!/usr/bin/env python
import cgi
import smtplib
import os
import sys
import urllib
import re
from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
print "Content-type: text/html\n"
form = cgi.FieldStorage() #Initializes the form dictionary to take data
from html form
key = [ 'SMTP Server', 'Username', 'Password', 'From', 'To', 'Subject',
'Message' ]
def get(form, key):
if form.has_key(key):
return form[key].value
else:
return ""
if get(form, "SMTP Server") or get(form, "Username") or get(form,
"Password") or get(form, "From") or get(form, "To") or get(form,
"Subject") or get(form, "Message"):
print ''
else:
print 'Error: You did not enter any Email parameters'
print '<br>'
print '<a
raise ValueError("nothing entered")
##mail = open('mail.txt','rb')
##msg = MIMEText(mail.read())
##mail.close()
msg = MIMEText(form['Message'].value) #mime text is a method that takes
in a text variable and creates a dictionary whose contects are
inatialized according to the text.
##print MIMEText(form['Message'].value)
##msg = msg.as_string() + mail
msg['Subject'] = form['Subject'].value
msg['From'] = form['From'].value
msg['To'] = form['To'].value
# Send the message via our own SMTP server, but don't include the
# envelope header.
s = smtplib.SMTP(form['SMTP Server'].value)
s.login(form['Username'].value,form['Password'].value)
s.sendmail(form['From'].value, [form['To'].value], msg.as_string())
s.close()
print """<HTML><Head><Title>Email Confirmation
Page</Title></Head><br><Body>Your email has been sent.<br></Body></HTML>"""
