Python scripts to compose email messages and send via postfix.

queue_email can be used in a web app to send messages with custom text to users or in a mailmerge with .csv files

See the mailmerge example in mail_example.py

Directory structure

Create directory mail somewhere

  mail
  ├── emails.log
  ├── queued
  └── sent

mail_server.py

mail_server reads message files from queued and submits them to postfix which sends the emails and has its own queue and log and .

It enters a line in emails.log, and moves the message from queued to sent.

There is no checking to see if the email was sent by postfix.

There is no provision to receive emails.

Mailing scripts and mailmerge example

message file format for queue_email

See example merge_message.txt in mail_example. To make composing easier, leave out all html paragraph tags...they are added by queue_email.

<sender address>
<recipent address>
<subject>
<line1 that has any needed html tags except paragraph tags>
...
<line1 that has any needed needed html tags except paragraph tags>

Message-generating scripts

email_scripts.py

Script queue_email creates message files.

queue_email(sender_addr, recip_name, recip_adrr, subject, message_list, help_line='', signature_line='', id=None)

Mailmerge example